NBA 1971-72Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers116–126Philadelphia 76ers

Cleveland Cavaliers at Philadelphia 76ers

Date: Wednesday 16 February 1972
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1971-72Regular season
Meeting: 10th meetingof 239 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	—	10–30	10–12	5	5	4	30
Butch Beard	—	4–13	10–12	7	8	5	18
Charlie Davis	—	4–14	7–7	1	0	2	15
Rick Roberson	—	6–15	3–5	22	2	3	15
John Johnson	—	5–9	1–1	6	1	3	11
Greg Howard	—	3–4	2–2	6	0	2	8
Bingo Smith	—	3–10	1–1	4	1	5	7
Walt Wesley	—	3–9	0–0	5	1	2	6
Steve Patterson	—	2–7	0–1	5	0	1	4
John Warren	—	0–1	2–2	1	0	0	2
Bobby Washington	—	0–1	0–0	0	2	2	0
Team totals	—	40–113	36–43	62	20	29	116

Philadelphia 76ers

Philadelphia 76ers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Bob Rule	42:00	11–18	9–13	10	4	5	31
Fred Carter	40:00	10–17	6–7	4	5	4	26
Billy Cunningham	38:00	12–24	6–11	22	5	4	30
Bill Bridges	36:00	1–3	0–0	11	2	4	2
Hal Greer	34:00	3–10	3–5	7	4	4	9
Kevin Loughery	15:00	6–10	4–4	1	2	2	16
Fred Foster	13:00	1–7	1–1	1	2	3	3
Dave Wohl	7:00	0–1	3–4	0	4	2	3
Al Henry	7:00	0–4	0–0	3	0	1	0
Luke Jackson	4:00	1–2	1–3	0	1	0	3
Barry Yates	2:00	1–1	1–2	0	0	0	3
Dennis Awtrey	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	240:00	46–97	34–50	59	29	30	126

This season

Philadelphia 76ers 4, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1971-72.

24 Oct 1971Philadelphia 76ers 111–93 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Oct 1971Cleveland Cavaliers 106–120 Philadelphia 76ers
28 Nov 1971Philadelphia 76ers 120–124 Cleveland Cavaliers
29 Dec 1971Philadelphia 76ers 102–103 Cleveland Cavaliers
2 Jan 1972Philadelphia 76ers 148–119 Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Feb 1972116–126 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 17–45
Philadelphia 76ers: 23–38

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Philadelphia 76ers 122, Cleveland Cavaliers 117.

2 Jan 1972Philadelphia 76ers 148–119 Cleveland Cavaliers
25 Oct 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 113–108 Philadelphia 76ers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.