Paul Snyder (basketball)

Paul L. Snyder, Sr. is a Buffalo, New York businessman and former owner of the Buffalo Braves basketball team.^[1]

Snyder was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and first attended Alfred University before transferring to the University at Buffalo. He was on the football and wrestling teams in college.^[2]

He founded the Freezer Queen frozen food company in Buffalo in 1958^[3] and founded the Darien Lake theme park after purchasing 500 acres (2.0 km²) of land in Genesee County, New York in 1964, owning the resort and slowly developing it into a major amusement park until he sold the resort in 1983. He also briefly operated a (now demolished) Industrial Park located on the southeastern grounds of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in the late 1980s.

He was the second owner of the Buffalo Braves, which was an expansion team in the 1970-1971 NBA season. He sold the team in 1977, unable to compete with the much more successful Buffalo Sabres, who also debuted in the National Hockey League in 1970, or with the local college basketball teams, who were largely hostile toward professional basketball in Buffalo and managed to prevent Snyder from securing home games at the Auditorium. The franchise later moved to San Diego (in a complicated swap with the Boston Celtics), then to Los Angeles, where it plays as the Los Angeles Clippers.^[4]

External links

Snyder Corporation website

References

↑ http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,904058,00.html Time magazine -- Braves new world
↑ http://www.after50news.com/arch/nov07.htm
↑ http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/07/03/daily46.html Buffalo Business First -- Freezer Queen to close
↑ http://www.nba.com/clippers/history/Clippers_History__Buffalo-53157-111.html NBA.com LA Clippers history 1970-71

Buffalo Braves

Based in Buffalo, NY Played in San Diego (1978–1984), now the Los Angeles Clippers (1984–Current) All-time record as Braves: 267–389 (.407)

Franchise	1970 NBA Expansion Draft Draft history

Arenas	Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Head coaches	Dolph Schayes (1970–1972) John McCarthy (1972) Jack Ramsay (1972–1976) Tates Locke (1976–1977) Bob MacKinnon (1977) Joe Mullaney (1977) Cotton Fitzsimmons (1977–1978)

General Managers	Eddie Donovan (1970–1975)

Owners	Paul Snyder (1970–1977) John Y. Brown, Jr. (1976–1978) Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. (1977–1978) (minority partner)

Seasons	1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78

Hall of Famers	Nate Archibald Adrian Dantley Moses Malone Bob McAdoo Jack Ramsay Dolph Schayes

Culture and lore	1974 NBA Playoffs 1975 NBA Playoffs 1976 NBA Playoffs

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