NBA 1973-74Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers106–120Houston Rockets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Houston Rockets

Date: Friday 8 February 1974
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1973-74Regular season
Meeting: 22nd meetingof 144 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	8–18	6–8	1	0	1	6	1	0	4	22
Steve Patterson	6–14	8–10	6	10	16	10	0	—	3	20
Bingo Smith	9–18	0–0	1	4	5	0	2	—	5	18
Lenny Wilkens	6–8	2–2	0	1	1	1	1	—	3	14
Jim Cleamons	4–9	2–3	1	1	2	3	3	0	2	10
Jim Brewer	3–7	3–4	3	2	5	1	3	—	1	9
Barry Clemens	2–2	0–0	1	1	2	1	1	0	3	4
Luke Witte	1–2	2–2	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	4
Dwight Davis	1–5	1–2	3	2	5	2	0	—	3	3
John Warren	1–3	0–0	1	1	2	0	2	0	2	2
Team totals	41–86	24–31	17	22	39	24	13	0	26	106

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	PF	PTS
Rudy Tomjanovich	16–21	7–7	2	5	7	1	2	—	2	39
Calvin Murphy	9–15	4–4	0	1	1	15	1	0	4	22
Mike Newlin	4–9	5–7	1	0	1	5	4	0	4	13
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	5–8	2–2	3	6	9	1	0	—	6	12
Cliff Meely	5–12	0–0	2	3	5	1	1	—	1	10
E.C. Coleman	3–6	2–4	4	5	9	3	0	0	5	8
Dave Wohl	3–5	0–0	0	1	1	2	6	—	3	6
Ed Ratleff	0–3	6–7	0	2	2	1	0	—	2	6
Kevin Kunnert	2–5	0–0	2	2	4	0	1	—	3	4
Team totals	47–84	26–31	14	25	39	29	15	0	30	120

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 1973Cleveland Cavaliers 104–96 Houston Rockets
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 1974106–120 this game
10 Mar 1974Cleveland Cavaliers 108–113 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 19–40
Houston Rockets: 20–38

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

23 Dec 1973Houston Rockets 91–99 Cleveland Cavaliers
10 Mar 1974Cleveland Cavaliers 108–113 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.