As the Nets franchise began its 50th season Wednesday night in Boston, the team had dressed 446 players, employed 24 head coaches and 14 general managers, had six owners/ownership groups, played in two different leagues and eight arenas located in six different counties spread across two states.
But, through it all, they’ve had just one official scorer.
Herb Turetzky, then a senior at LIU, fell into the job when the Nets began life as the New Jersey Americans of the American Basketball Association and played home games at an armory in Teaneck, N.J.
Turetzky has been with the team for nearly every game since, following the nomadic Nets — they spent just one season as the Americans — from Teaneck to Commack to West Hempstead to Uniondale to Piscataway to East Rutherford to Newark and, finally, home to Brooklyn.