NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Chicago Bulls91–88Cleveland Cavaliers

Chicago Bulls at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Tuesday 18 October 1977
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 29th meetingof 273 played

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Wilbur Holland	41:00	5–15	4–7	1	4	5	2	3	0	5	3	14
Artis Gilmore	40:00	15–25	4–6	4	5	9	3	0	1	5	2	34
Scott May	38:00	5–12	0–1	2	3	5	3	1	0	4	4	10
Norm Van Lier	36:00	1–7	1–2	0	4	4	4	3	0	5	3	3
Mickey Johnson	35:00	9–19	4–8	6	12	18	2	2	0	2	4	22
Nick Weatherspoon	21:00	2–3	0–0	1	3	4	1	0	0	2	2	4
John Mengelt	15:00	0–1	2–4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
Tom Boerwinkle	8:00	1–3	0–0	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	2
Tate Armstrong	4:00	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Sheppard	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	38–86	15–28	16	33	49	17	9	1	24	20	91

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	39:00	7–17	7–12	2	4	6	7	2	0	4	3	21
Walt Frazier	33:00	9–15	2–2	1	4	5	3	1	1	1	1	20
Jim Chones	28:00	4–9	0–0	2	5	7	0	1	0	6	6	8
Jim Brewer	27:00	3–5	2–5	0	2	2	0	1	1	3	3	8
Eddie Jordan	23:00	5–9	1–2	1	1	2	6	2	1	4	1	11
Foots Walker	20:00	2–3	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	3	4
Bingo Smith	18:00	2–7	0–0	1	2	3	1	2	1	1	1	4
John Lambert	17:00	2–3	0–0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	4
Elmore Smith	15:00	1–3	2–4	0	6	6	0	0	3	0	3	4
Austin Carr	11:00	0–3	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Snyder	9:00	2–3	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	4
Team totals	240:00	37–77	14–25	7	27	34	20	10	8	20	24	88

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 1, Chicago Bulls 3 in NBA 1977-78.

18 Oct 197791–88 this game
3 Dec 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 97–111 Chicago Bulls
20 Feb 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 95–106 Chicago Bulls
26 Mar 1978Chicago Bulls 78–95 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Chicago Bulls: 0–0
Cleveland Cavaliers: 0–0

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 121, Chicago Bulls 152.

27 Mar 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 90–95 Chicago Bulls
3 Dec 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 97–111 Chicago Bulls

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.