Despite this, The Nets had to play a stand-in season in the ABA after court requests kept them from joining the NBA. Erving wouldn’t play for the Nets under these circumstances and wouldn’t answer to camp. The New Jersey Nets were the most horrendously terrible group in the NBA in the 1977-78 season. They turned into the principal NBA group ever to have an all-left-given beginning setup, with Tim Bassett, Al Skinner, Bubbles Hawkins, Dave Wohl, and Kim Hughes.