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The NBA had two previous teams in Upstate New York, the Rochester Royals and the Syracuse Nationals (who are now known as the Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers, respectively). As of 2022, the Braves are the last New York State-based NBA team to be based somewhere other than New York City, where the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets play.
In total, the team won 101 games, lost 359, and never qualified for the NBA playoffs. The two expansion teams were denied early draft picks in the first season, but the Grizzlies secured Shareef Abdur-Rahim in 1996 and Mike Bibby with the second pick of the 1998 NBA draft. The team continued to lose games despite high draft picks.
Buffalo's intercollegiate sports program returned in 1915. [12] Buffalo's sports teams were known as the "Buffalo Bison" until the 1930s, at which point they changed their name to the Bulls to avoid confusion with several professional sports teams of the same name. [13] However, in 1960, the Buffalo Bills began play in the American Football ...
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The 1978–79 NBA season was the 33rd season of the National Basketball Association.The season ended with the Seattle SuperSonics winning the NBA Championship, beating the Washington Bullets 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals, a rematch of the previous year's Finals, but with the opposite result.
The NBA does not recognize NBL records and statistics except under certain circumstances. [7] As such, the records and statistics of the BAA and NBL prior to the merger in 1949 are considered in official NBA history only if a player, coach, or team participated in the newly formed NBA after 1949 for one or more seasons. [8] [9]
The team competed in the American Basketball Association (ABA) as the Buffalo Rapids in 2005–06 and as the Buffalo Silverbacks in 2006–07 before suspending operations. The organization rebranded as the Buffalo Sharks with plans to relaunch for the 2008–09 ABA season , but ownership instead folded the team.
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