NBA 1973-74Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers104–96Houston Rockets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Houston Rockets

Date: Thursday 22 November 1973
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1973-74Regular season
Meeting: 18th meetingof 144 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	9–22	9–10	1	2	3	4	0	0	2	27
Dwight Davis	6–13	9–13	1	9	10	0	3	—	4	21
Lenny Wilkens	6–11	6–9	1	2	3	4	0	—	1	18
Bob Rule	2–3	6–10	1	1	2	0	0	0	3	10
Steve Patterson	3–7	3–6	6	7	13	0	0	—	0	9
Bingo Smith	4–13	0–0	1	4	5	2	3	—	3	8
Jim Cleamons	2–7	3–4	3	1	4	0	0	0	2	7
Jim Brewer	2–3	0–0	0	5	5	0	1	—	5	4
Barry Clemens	0–3	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	34–82	36–52	15	31	46	10	7	0	21	104

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
Rudy Tomjanovich	13–23	2–4	1	6	7	1	1	—	5	28
Mike Newlin	9–15	3–6	1	2	3	3	0	0	6	21
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	5–16	3–3	9	16	25	2	1	—	4	13
Jack Marin	5–10	2–2	0	3	3	1	2	0	5	12
Calvin Murphy	3–10	2–2	2	0	2	4	1	0	6	8
Matt Guokas	4–5	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	—	6	8
George Johnson	2–2	0–0	2	2	4	0	0	—	1	4
Ed Ratleff	1–10	0–0	1	6	7	1	1	—	1	2
Paul McCracken	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	0
Ron Riley	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1	0
Team totals	42–91	12–17	16	37	53	16	6	0	37	96

This season

Houston Rockets 4, Cleveland Cavaliers 4 in NBA 1973-74.

12 Oct 1973Houston Rockets 106–99 Cleveland Cavaliers
9 Nov 1973Houston Rockets 106–111 Cleveland Cavaliers
22 Nov 1973104–96 this game
23 Nov 1973Cleveland Cavaliers 85–83 Houston Rockets
2 Dec 1973Houston Rockets 130–104 Cleveland Cavaliers
23 Dec 1973Houston Rockets 91–99 Cleveland Cavaliers
8 Feb 1974Cleveland Cavaliers 106–120 Houston Rockets
10 Mar 1974Cleveland Cavaliers 108–113 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 4–15
Houston Rockets: 5–13

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 93, Cleveland Cavaliers 51.

9 Nov 1973Houston Rockets 106–111 Cleveland Cavaliers
23 Nov 1973Cleveland Cavaliers 85–83 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.