This article originally appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer October 15, 1970.
Cavaliers Lose in NBA Debut
by Bill Nichols
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cleveland and Buffalo, two of the National Basketball Association’s babies, held a coming-out party last night and for the Cavaliers, at least, it turned out like warm pop — very hard to digest.
Buffalo, considered by many to have the best of the NBA’s three expansion teams, bounced the Cavaliers, 107-92, before 7,129 partisans in Memorial Auditorium.
The Cavaliers made a contest of it momentarily in the early gong, tying the count four times before Buffalo went ahead for good, 12-10, on a turnaround jumper by center Nate Bowman.
It was all Buffalo from there on. Cleveland was unable to penetrate the Braves’ full court press or stop the outside shooting of Donnie May, former University of Dayton All-America and sub with the New York Knicks.
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