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From: speter@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Peter Osgood)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: More sports Trivia
Message-ID: <1479@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 11:31:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 25 11:31:02 1986
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In article <1328@bunker.UUCP> rha@bunker.UUCP (Robert H. Averack) writes:
>In article <194@netxcom.UUCP> rkolker@netxcom.UUCP (Rick Kolker) writes:
>
>     The Buffalo Braves moved to San Diego and became the Clippers.  Later,
>they moved to Los Angeles.  The Syracuse Nationals became the Philadelphia
>76'ers.
>

This is the one everyone has gotten caught on.  It was not intended to be
a trick question but maybe in fact that is the way it has worked out.
Anyway, in 1978 John Y. Brown, then owner of the Boston Celtics, ran a
deal with the owners of the Buffalo Braves (The Jacobs Bros. I believe).
In effect what happened was the Braves team was moved to Boston with
most of its players and became the Celtics.  The Celtics team with most
of its players were moved to a new team in San Diego.  So now the old
Braves owners were the Celtic owners and John Y. Brown sold his franchise
to San Diego investors.  In essence one Boston franchise went out of
existance and was replaced by the Braves franchise.  This is, BTW, how
Bob McAdoo came to Boston.  A couple of asides  1)  Red Auerbach had
threatened to retire, he really hated Brown  2) Chris Ford and Cedric
Maxwell were allowed to remain in Boston because of contracts 3) Dave
Cowens did retire.

Now, the Utah Jazz are actually a combination of the old Utah Stars
and the New Orleans Jazz.

				---peter osgood---