NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers99–104Houston Rockets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Houston Rockets

Date: Thursday 29 December 1977
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 43rd meetingof 144 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	48:00	11–27	7–8	5	3	8	1	0	0	1	3	29
Jim Chones	44:00	11–17	4–7	3	4	7	1	0	0	3	2	26
Walt Frazier	32:00	8–14	1–1	3	1	4	1	0	0	2	3	17
Jim Brewer	32:00	1–4	0–0	2	10	12	1	1	0	1	1	2
Foots Walker	26:00	2–7	3–3	1	0	1	3	1	0	2	3	7
Austin Carr	25:00	1–8	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	0	2
Terry Furlow	13:00	6–7	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	12
Elmore Smith	9:00	0–1	2–2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Bingo Smith	7:00	1–3	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
John Lambert	4:00	0–2	0–0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	0
Team totals	240:00	41–90	17–21	14	23	37	9	2	1	13	16	99

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Calvin Murphy	43:00	11–23	4–5	0	2	2	4	4	0	2	2	26
Moses Malone	42:00	11–20	4–8	11	15	26	1	1	4	4	4	26
John Lucas	34:00	4–11	3–3	1	4	5	14	2	0	3	1	11
Dwight Jones	34:00	4–10	0–0	1	5	6	0	0	0	3	3	8
Robert Reid	23:00	4–9	0–0	1	1	2	2	1	1	0	6	8
Ed Ratleff	22:00	4–5	0–0	1	1	2	2	0	1	0	1	8
Kevin Kunnert	20:00	7–10	1–2	2	1	3	0	0	1	1	5	15
Alonzo Bradley	19:00	1–5	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	2
C.J. Kupec	3:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	240:00	46–93	12–18	18	29	47	23	8	8	15	24	104

This season

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

1 Dec 1977Houston Rockets 105–92 Cleveland Cavaliers
29 Dec 197799–104 this game
27 Feb 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 110–97 Houston Rockets
14 Mar 1978Houston Rockets 98–119 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 18–13
Houston Rockets: 12–19

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

1 Dec 1977Houston Rockets 105–92 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Feb 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 110–97 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.