NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets116–105Los Angeles Lakers

Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers

Date: Friday 9 December 1977
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 55th meetingof 285 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Calvin Murphy	37:00	11–25	6–7	2	2	4	6	3	0	3	3	28
John Lucas	33:00	7–12	6–7	0	0	0	7	3	0	2	0	20
Moses Malone	32:00	7–19	6–8	8	8	16	1	1	3	4	4	20
Ed Ratleff	28:00	5–7	0–0	2	3	5	2	1	0	3	2	10
Dwight Jones	28:00	1–5	4–6	3	8	11	0	0	0	1	2	6
Rudy Tomjanovich	21:00	9–14	1–2	3	5	8	0	0	0	0	0	19
Mike Newlin	18:00	2–8	4–4	0	0	0	2	2	0	3	5	8
Kevin Kunnert	18:00	1–4	1–2	2	4	6	0	1	0	1	6	3
Robert Reid	17:00	1–3	0–0	0	3	3	1	1	1	1	3	2
Larry Moffett	8:00	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	240:00	44–97	28–36	21	33	54	19	12	4	18	26	116

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	40:00	13–22	6–8	1	6	7	3	2	4	5	5	32
Tom Abernethy	33:00	4–10	3–4	1	5	6	2	2	0	1	2	11
Lou Hudson	29:00	5–7	3–5	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	13
Ernie DiGregorio	29:00	4–11	3–5	1	2	3	8	0	0	3	1	11
Don Ford	25:00	3–9	0–0	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	6
Norm Nixon	19:00	6–13	0–0	1	1	2	4	0	0	1	5	12
Earl Tatum	19:00	4–5	0–0	0	7	7	3	1	1	4	6	8
Kenny Carr	19:00	2–4	2–4	1	2	3	1	0	0	2	4	6
Kermit Washington	19:00	2–7	2–4	3	3	6	3	1	0	1	1	6
James Edwards	8:00	0–3	0–0	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	0
Team totals	240:00	43–91	19–30	11	29	40	26	7	5	18	30	105

This season

Los Angeles Lakers 3, Houston Rockets 1 in NBA 1977-78.

9 Dec 1977116–105 this game
14 Dec 1977Los Angeles Lakers 113–91 Houston Rockets
22 Jan 1978Houston Rockets 101–106 Los Angeles Lakers
22 Mar 1978Los Angeles Lakers 124–106 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 9–13
Los Angeles Lakers: 9–14

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Lakers 179, Houston Rockets 106.

2 Mar 1977Los Angeles Lakers 113–120 Houston Rockets
14 Dec 1977Los Angeles Lakers 113–91 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.