NBA 1971-72Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers108–128Cincinnati Royals

Cleveland Cavaliers at Cincinnati Royals

Date: Sunday 16 January 1972
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1971-72Regular season
Meeting: 9th meetingof 131 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
John Johnson	10–22	4–4	10	5	2	24
John Warren	11–20	2–4	9	6	5	24
Walt Wesley	6–13	1–2	11	0	2	13
Bingo Smith	3–12	5–5	3	0	3	11
Butch Beard	4–14	3–6	7	1	5	11
Dave Sorenson	3–3	2–2	3	1	4	8
Bobby Washington	1–5	3–3	0	2	2	5
Steve Patterson	2–4	1–1	3	0	0	5
Charlie Davis	2–12	0–1	3	1	4	4
Greg Howard	1–2	0–0	0	1	1	2
Jackie Ridgle	0–0	1–2	1	0	0	1
Team totals	43–107	22–30	50	17	28	108

Cincinnati Royals

Cincinnati Royals box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Tiny Archibald	14–25	13–15	4	16	4	41
Johnny Green	8–10	3–6	7	3	3	19
John Mengelt	7–10	3–4	1	0	4	17
Nate Williams	6–12	5–5	4	4	2	17
Sam Lacey	6–12	2–3	15	3	2	14
Matt Guokas	5–5	0–0	1	2	3	10
Ken Durrett	2–3	0–0	4	1	4	4
Fred Taylor	1–1	0–0	1	0	1	2
Gil McGregor	1–2	0–0	3	0	2	2
Jim Fox	1–1	0–0	6	0	2	2
Tom Van Arsdale	0–4	0–0	4	1	1	0
Team totals	51–85	26–33	50	30	28	128

This season

Sacramento Kings 6, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1971-72.

26 Nov 1971Cincinnati Royals 114–128 Cleveland Cavaliers
11 Dec 1971Cleveland Cavaliers 95–103 Cincinnati Royals
16 Jan 1972108–128 this game
22 Jan 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 96–113 Cincinnati Royals
29 Jan 1972Cincinnati Royals 120–118 Cleveland Cavaliers
18 Feb 1972Cincinnati Royals 109–133 Cleveland Cavaliers
19 Feb 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 92–112 Cincinnati Royals
26 Mar 1972Cincinnati Royals 135–122 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 15–31
Cincinnati Royals: 13–31

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Sacramento Kings 67, Cleveland Cavaliers 64.

11 Dec 1971Cleveland Cavaliers 95–103 Cincinnati Royals
22 Jan 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 96–113 Cincinnati Royals

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.