Before the Long Island Nets were set up in 2016, another Nets team had played at Nassau Coliseum: the New York Nets of the ABA. New York was one of the most dominant teams in the upstart league, winning two titles in 1974 and 1976.
Julius Erving was the poster boy for the New York Nets in their title runs. In addition to Erving, the Nets had a great supporting cast, including one of the ABA’s best shooters, Brian Taylor.
Taylor, who helped the Nets win those two ABA titles, began his professional basketball career with New York in 1973, one year before Erving arrived, coming out of Princeton .