https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NJN/
They have teams' all-time top 12 Win Shares leaders. At #1 for the Nets, a guy who's picture I did not recognize -- Buck Williams, whose 62.8 WS tops their list.
On a very rainy day, I went thru all 30 teams and, sure enough, they all have at least 2 players with more WS for that franchise. [Possibly excepting the Hornets/Pelicans who stupided up their 'history'.]
Nets who have come and gone include some all-time greats who were mostly not Nets. Ranked by their career Win Shares:
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cWS Nets from to WS %WS VORP %V A* %a*
181 Julius Erving 1974 76 52 .29 28 .35 3 .19
161 Kevin Durant 2021 23 19 .12 11 .13 3 .23
157 James Harden 2021 22 10 .07 6 .08 2 .20
139 Jason Kidd 2002 08 57 .41 32 .44 5 .42
129 Rick Barry 1971 72 19 .15 2 .17
125 Vince Carter 2005 09 44 .35 21 .37 2 .25
120 Buck Williams 1982 89 63 .52 13 .59 3 1.00
83 Ri. Jefferson 2002 08 51 .61 14 .72 0
83 Joe Johnson 2013 16 15 .18 4 .14 1 .14
78 Kyrie Irving 2020 23 18 .23 9 .23 2 .25
cWS Nets from to WS %WS VORP %V A* %a*
78 Stephon Marbury 1999 01 19 .25 9 .29 1 .50
77 Brook Lopez 2009 17 50 .64 15 .64 1 1.00
77 Deron Williams 2011 15 25 .32 9 .33 1 .33
75 Bernard King 1978 79 14 .18 4 .15 0 .00
70 Billy Paultz 1971 75 36 .50 5 .31 2 .67
64 Derrick Coleman 1991 95 36 .56 15 .65 1 1.00
63 Kenny Anderson 1992 96 23 .37 10 .46 1 1.00
58 Armen Gilliam 1994 96 20 .35 5 .58
56 Mike Gminski 1981 88 34 .62 9 .68
55 Devin Harris 2008 11 15 .28 6 .36 1 1.00
Buck W played less than half of his games here, but just over 50% of minutes.
R Jefferson is the closest to a franchise guy, though never a 'star' player.