History of the Braves

The Buffalo Braves were a professional basketball team based in Buffalo, New York. The team was founded in 1970 as part of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They played their home games at Memorial Auditorium until 1977 when they moved to San Diego and became the San Diego Clippers.

The first season of the Braves was a success as they finished with an impressive 48-34 record and qualified for their first playoff appearance since entering the NBA. Led by Hall of Fame center Bob McAdoo, who won his second consecutive scoring title that year, and All-Star guard Randy Smith, who led them in assists per game (7.4), steals per game (2), and total points scored for that season (1,874), they advanced all the way to Game 7 of Eastern Conference Finals against Julius Erving's Philadelphia 76ers before eventually losing out on advancing further into championship contention due to fatigue from playing so many games consecutively without much rest or practice time between series.

Unfortunately, this would be one of two times during their seven-season run that they'd make it past round 1 playoffs; however those early years established themselves firmly within league history books as being among some great teams such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar's Milwaukee Bucks & Bill Walton's Portland Trail Blazers which also happened around the same era - making it quite an exciting time overall!

Despite having had several talented players including future Hall-of-Famer Elmore Smith alongside other notable names like Gar Heard & Adrian Dantley throughout its short tenure; ultimately lack consistency both on the court performance-wise coupled with financial difficulties off the field caused the franchise to relocate after just seven seasons leaving behind memories what could have been if things had gone differently...