For their inaugural season in the National Basketball Association in 1970-71, this was the logo of the Buffalo Braves, who entered the league that year as one of three expansion teams, along with the Portland Trailblazers and Cleveland Cavaliers. The team’s first head coach was Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes, and they were able to acquire a couple of useful players – Don May and Bob Kaufmann – in the expansion draft. Like most expansion teams, they had a losing season in that first year, but in the next 2 years made some great moves – hiring Jack Ramsay as coach, trading disappointing draft pick Elmore Smith for Jim McMillian, and drafting Ernie DiGregorio, Bob McAdoo and local college star Randy Smith, and by 1973 were in the NBA playoffs. The club was sold to ABA owner John Y. Brown in 1978, who promptly traded the franchise for the Boston Celtics, and they were relocated to San Diego.