Lawrence Ronald Costello (July 2, 1931 – December 13, 2001) was an American professional basketball player and coach.
 He was known as the National Basketball Association's last two-handed set shooter.
 After playing at Niagara University, he joined the Philadelphia Warriors in 1954.
 Two years later he was traded to the Syracuse Nationals.
 He retired in 1965 from the Philadelphia 76ers (the former Syracuse Nationals), but eventually came back for the 1966–67 NBA season after new head coach Alex Hannum told him he needed a veteran point guard.
 With 42 games into the season, Costello ripped his Achilles tendon on January 6, 1967 and was replaced by Wali Jones.
 He did, however, come back to participlate in the 1967 playoffs.
 Costello ended his career for the second and final time in 1968.
Peter S. Tillotson (born March 23, 1936) is an American former basketball player.
 He grew up in Ludington, Michigan, and played basketball for Ludington High School from 1951 to 1954.
 In three years at Ludington High, he scored 1,176 points -- 179 points as a sophomore, 433 points as a junior and 564 points as a senior.
 During the 1953–54 season, he averaged 25.6 points per game.
 He led Ludington to a 21–2 record and the state finals in 1952 and an 18–4 record in 1953.
 As a student at the University of Michigan, he played center for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team from 1955 to 1958.
 He was the captain, most valuable player, and leading scorer on the 1957–58 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
 He scored 415 points during the 1957–58 season (an average of 18.8 points per game), the second highest point total in Michigan's history to that point.
 Tillotson was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals in the fifth round (53rd overall pick) of the 1958 NBA draft.
 He was injured during the pre-season training camp for Syracuse and spent the 1958–59 season playing for the Milan Simmenthal in the Italian Amateur League.
 He led Milan to a second-place finish for the European championship while averaging 18 points and 11 rebounds.
 He played for Syracuse in 1960, but his playing career ended after he sustained a knee injury.
 After retiring from basketball, Tillotson worked for nearly 40 years for Ford Motor Company, Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
 He retired in 2001.
 He was included in the inaugural class of seven athletes inducted into the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 They are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Formerly known as the Syracuse Nationals, the 76ers joined the NBA when it was founded in 1949.
 The Nationals had a record of 51–13 in their first NBA season under coach Al Cervi and won the Eastern Division crown.
 The franchise were purchased by Philadelphian Irv Kosloff and Ike Richma in the spring of 1963; the NBA approved their franchise shift on May 22 and name change to the Philadelphia 76ers on August 6.
 This brought professional basketball back to the city, which had been without a team since the Golden State Warriors left Philadelphia in 1962.
 After coaching the 76ers since , Doug Collins resigned as head coach on April 18, 2013 following the 2012–13 season.
 Brett Brown was hired to be the head coach of the 76ers on August 15, 2013 prior to the start of the 2013-14 season.
The State Fair Coliseum is an indoor arena in Geddes, New York.
 It hosted the Syracuse Nationals from 1946 to 1951 as well as the Syracuse Stars of the American Hockey League.
 The arena held 7,500 people and was built in 1927.
 It is owned by the State of New York with naming rights purchased by Coca-Cola.
The 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represents the University of Michigan during the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The team was coached by John Beilein.
 The team played its home games in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the Crisler Arena, which has a capacity of 13,751, for the forty-fourth consecutive year.
 This season marked the team's ninety-fourth consecutive year as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
 The team witnessed the departure of its four tallest players and two leading scorers from the prior season.
 The incoming class featured the sons of two former National Basketball Association players (Tim Hardaway and Tito Horford) and the younger brother of a current one (Al Horford).
 Additionally Joe Dumars' son Jordan transferred to the team and Glenn Robinson's son, Glenn Robinson III verbally committed to the class of 2012.
 The season was marked by close losses against numerous highly ranked teams.
Glenn Alan Robinson III (born January 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Robinson played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines for two years.
 He was an All-State high school basketball player for Lake Central High School in St. John, Indiana.
 After his sophomore season at Michigan for the 2013–14 team he declared for the NBA draft.
 Robinson was drafted 40th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2014 NBA draft.
 He has also played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers.
 He is the son of Glenn Robinson, the 1994 NBA first overall draft pick.
The 1949–50 Syracuse Nationals season was the first season for the Nationals in the National Basketball Association.
 The Nationals had played their three previous seasons in the National Basketball League, which merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
 Al Cervi, nicknamed ""Digger"" for his superior defensive skills, guided the team with his competitive nature while serving as a player-coach.
 As the Syracuse Post-Standard describes, "The Nationals shot poorly but succeeded because they played Cervi-style basketball: nasty, with an emphasis on defense."
 The Nationals went to the NBA Finals after beating the Philadelphia Warriors and New York Knicks, but lost to the Minneapolis Lakers in six games.
The Philadelphia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers) are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
 The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division and play at Wells Fargo Center.
 Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA, and one of only eight (out of 23) to survive the league's first decade.
The 1953–54 New York Knicks season was the eighth season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 New York won its second straight regular season Eastern Division title with a 44–28 record, which placed them two games ahead of the Boston Celtics and Syracuse Nationals.
 The first round of the 1954 NBA Playoffs consisted of round-robin tournaments, where the top three teams in each division played each other in home and away matchups.
 The Knicks went 0–4 against the Celtics and Nationals, and did not qualify for the Eastern Division Finals.
The 1955 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1954–55 NBA season.
 The best-of-seven series was won by the Syracuse Nationals, who defeated the Fort Wayne Pistons in the final game when Syracuse's George King made a free throw with 12 seconds left to put the Nationals up 92–91.
 King then stole the ball from Fort Wayne's Andy Phillip with three seconds remaining to clinch the victory for Syracuse.
 Because of the arena not believing Fort Wayne would make the NBA Finals, the arena was booked and not available, and the Fort Wayne home games were played in Indianapolis.

Question: The son of Glenn Robinson played for what team founded in 1946, originally known as the Syracuse Nationals?
Answer: Philadelphia 76ers