Logo of an old National Basketball Association franchise, the Rochester Royals, who played in the league from 1945 until 1957, when they were relocated to Cincinnati. In the team’s early pre-NBA years, Otto Graham played for them, before moving on to his true calling as an NFL quarterback. Some of the notable players from the Rochester years, besides Graham, include Red Holzman, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Alex Hannum, Al Cervi and Chuck Connors, who went on to television fame as “The Rifleman”. The Royals won the NBA championship in 1951, the only title in franchise history for the team that still exists today, as the Sacramento Kings.