NBA 1971-72Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers88–85Baltimore Bullets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Baltimore Bullets

Date: Tuesday 14 December 1971
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1971-72Regular season
Meeting: 7th meetingof 269 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Bingo Smith	—	7–19	4–4	10	1	5	18
John Johnson	—	6–21	6–9	10	6	2	18
Rick Roberson	—	8–14	2–4	16	1	2	18
John Warren	—	5–11	4–4	8	1	3	14
Butch Beard	—	2–12	6–9	7	4	2	10
Bobby Washington	—	1–3	3–4	0	1	3	5
Walt Wesley	—	1–6	1–2	3	0	3	3
Dave Sorenson	—	1–5	0–0	3	1	2	2
Jackie Ridgle	—	0–0	0–0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	—	31–91	26–36	57	15	23	88

Baltimore Bullets

Baltimore Bullets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Archie Clark	47:00	10–23	4–5	3	5	3	24
Jack Marin	39:00	4–14	5–6	9	1	2	13
Wes Unseld	35:00	4–6	4–7	17	3	4	12
Mike Riordan	32:00	3–13	5–8	10	2	2	11
Dave Stallworth	31:00	4–13	1–2	6	2	5	9
Phil Chenier	31:00	2–11	1–1	3	5	1	5
Stan Love	16:00	4–8	1–2	7	0	5	9
Dorie Murrey	5:00	0–0	0–0	1	0	2	0
John Tresvant	4:00	0–1	2–2	0	0	2	2
Team totals	240:00	31–89	23–33	56	18	26	85

This season

Washington Wizards 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 5 in NBA 1971-72.

23 Oct 1971Cleveland Cavaliers 109–101 Baltimore Bullets
23 Nov 1971Baltimore Bullets 102–104 Cleveland Cavaliers
14 Dec 197188–85 this game
26 Dec 1971Baltimore Bullets 102–108 Cleveland Cavaliers
14 Mar 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 127–118 Baltimore Bullets
16 Mar 1972Baltimore Bullets 105–101 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 10–20
Baltimore Bullets: 11–17

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Washington Wizards 127, Cleveland Cavaliers 142.

23 Nov 1971Baltimore Bullets 102–104 Cleveland Cavaliers
26 Dec 1971Baltimore Bullets 102–108 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.