NBA 1971-72Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers94–104Detroit Pistons

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons

Date: Wednesday 22 December 1971
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1971-72Regular season
Meeting: 6th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Butch Beard	8–19	4–4	2	9	3	20
John Johnson	8–16	4–5	10	4	4	20
Walt Wesley	7–14	0–0	7	0	4	14
Bobby Washington	5–13	3–3	1	3	2	13
Bingo Smith	4–6	1–1	1	1	3	9
Dave Sorenson	3–5	2–2	5	2	1	8
Rick Roberson	1–5	1–3	13	0	5	3
Steve Patterson	1–1	1–2	1	0	0	3
Jackie Ridgle	0–1	2–4	1	0	0	2
John Warren	1–6	0–0	1	1	1	2
Greg Howard	0–0	0–0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	38–86	18–24	42	20	24	94

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Bob Lanier	13–18	8–8	11	2	2	34
Jimmy Walker	7–19	4–5	1	5	3	18
Howard Komives	6–11	5–7	2	3	4	17
Curtis Rowe	5–12	3–4	14	1	3	13
Bob Quick	3–6	1–2	5	0	2	7
Harvey Marlatt	3–4	1–2	4	2	3	7
Terry Dischinger	2–6	0–0	5	2	2	4
Isaiah Wilson	1–4	1–1	1	0	0	3
Jim Davis	0–1	1–2	0	0	2	1
Bill Hewitt	0–1	0–0	1	0	1	0
Team totals	40–82	24–31	44	15	22	104

This season

Detroit Pistons 3, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1971-72.

10 Dec 1971Detroit Pistons 111–112 Cleveland Cavaliers
22 Dec 197194–104 this game
2 Feb 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 108–133 Detroit Pistons
13 Feb 1972Detroit Pistons 136–121 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 11–23
Detroit Pistons: 12–22

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Detroit Pistons 144, Cleveland Cavaliers 129.

10 Dec 1971Detroit Pistons 111–112 Cleveland Cavaliers
2 Feb 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 108–133 Detroit Pistons

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.