NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets105–92Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Thursday 1 December 1977
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 42nd meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Rudy Tomjanovich	42:00	12–20	3–4	1	4	5	0	0	0	0	2	27
Moses Malone	39:00	10–17	8–11	6	17	23	0	1	4	4	2	28
Robert Reid	39:00	5–8	0–0	3	6	9	5	2	3	3	5	10
Calvin Murphy	35:00	8–16	0–0	0	2	2	6	0	0	3	3	16
John Lucas	27:00	3–9	3–7	0	4	4	9	4	0	2	0	9
Ed Ratleff	21:00	3–6	2–2	1	3	4	3	1	1	1	1	8
Dwight Jones	15:00	1–4	2–4	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	3	4
Mike Newlin	13:00	0–2	1–2	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	1
Kevin Kunnert	9:00	1–4	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Team totals	240:00	43–86	19–30	14	37	51	23	10	8	15	20	105

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Walt Frazier	40:00	8–13	2–3	0	3	3	6	2	2	4	4	18
Campy Russell	39:00	7–25	9–15	1	5	6	1	2	0	2	1	23
Jim Brewer	38:00	4–10	0–2	3	4	7	1	0	0	0	4	8
Jim Chones	36:00	5–8	1–1	3	7	10	1	1	2	2	3	11
Foots Walker	34:00	4–12	0–0	2	1	3	3	1	0	0	3	8
Austin Carr	19:00	3–7	0–0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	6
Elmore Smith	12:00	5–7	2–2	2	1	3	0	0	3	0	3	12
John Lambert	10:00	2–5	0–0	3	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	4
Bingo Smith	9:00	1–5	0–0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
Eddie Jordan	3:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	39–93	14–23	15	22	37	15	7	7	12	21	92

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 2, Houston Rockets 2 in NBA 1977-78.

1 Dec 1977105–92 this game
29 Dec 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 99–104 Houston Rockets
27 Feb 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 110–97 Houston Rockets
14 Mar 1978Houston Rockets 98–119 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 7–12
Cleveland Cavaliers: 13–5

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

2 Apr 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 93–106 Houston Rockets
29 Dec 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 99–104 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.