Logo of the National Basketball Association’s Syracuse Nationals, who played in the league from 1949 until 1963, when they moved to Philadelphia and became the 76ers. The franchise is the oldest continued team in league history. The Nats won the NBA title in 1955 behind long-time NBA legend Dolph Schayes. Other notable players to wear the franchise uniform in the small-town Syracuse years were Al Cervi, Alex Groza, Johnny Kerr and Hal Greer.