NBA 1971-72Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers83–98New York Knicks

Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks

Date: Saturday 25 March 1972
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1971-72Regular season
Meeting: 10th meetingof 248 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	10–27	3–5	4	2	4	23
Bingo Smith	9–17	1–2	5	0	1	19
Rick Roberson	5–14	2–2	15	0	3	12
Butch Beard	3–6	2–2	6	5	2	8
John Johnson	4–19	0–4	14	7	1	8
Steve Patterson	2–4	1–2	4	0	0	5
Bobby Washington	2–5	0–0	5	3	6	4
Dave Sorenson	1–2	0–0	0	1	0	2
Walt Wesley	1–6	0–0	1	0	2	2
Team totals	37–100	9–17	54	18	19	83

New York Knicks

New York Knicks box score
Player	FG	FT	TRB	AST	PF	PTS
Walt Frazier	9–22	5–5	7	8	2	23
Dick Barnett	7–14	5–7	1	5	1	19
Dave DeBusschere	6–16	0–0	7	1	2	12
Phil Jackson	4–10	3–3	11	1	1	11
Bill Bradley	5–9	0–0	2	1	4	10
Jerry Lucas	4–11	2–2	9	4	5	10
Luther Rackley	2–7	4–4	12	1	3	8
Eddie Miles	1–1	1–2	0	0	0	3
Eddie Mast	1–3	0–0	1	1	1	2
Charlie Paulk	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0
Dean Meminger	0–3	0–0	6	1	0	0
Team totals	39–97	20–23	56	23	19	98

This season

New York Knicks 5, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1971-72.

17 Oct 1971New York Knicks 121–120 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Dec 1971New York Knicks 103–92 Cleveland Cavaliers
18 Dec 1971Cleveland Cavaliers 84–104 New York Knicks
12 Feb 1972Cleveland Cavaliers 91–106 New York Knicks
20 Feb 1972New York Knicks 109–111 Cleveland Cavaliers
25 Mar 197283–98 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 23–57
New York Knicks: 47–33

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: New York Knicks 136, Cleveland Cavaliers 112.

20 Feb 1972New York Knicks 109–111 Cleveland Cavaliers
20 Oct 1972New York Knicks 92–89 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.