NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers89–104Denver Nuggets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Denver Nuggets

Date: Tuesday 17 January 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 6th meetingof 102 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	36:00	7–17	5–6	4	5	9	8	0	0	6	2	19
Walt Frazier	36:00	6–16	5–5	1	2	3	3	1	1	2	4	17
Foots Walker	34:00	5–10	0–0	0	2	2	3	5	0	4	1	10
Jim Chones	28:00	2–11	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	1	2	5	4
Austin Carr	26:00	5–15	0–0	4	2	6	3	1	1	0	0	10
Elmore Smith	25:00	7–16	0–0	1	5	6	0	0	1	0	3	14
Jim Brewer	25:00	3–5	1–3	1	3	4	1	2	1	0	0	7
Bingo Smith	15:00	2–5	4–4	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	1	8
John Lambert	15:00	0–1	0–0	0	4	4	1	1	0	2	4	0
Team totals	240:00	37–96	15–18	13	25	38	23	10	5	16	20	89

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Bobby Jones	41:00	5–12	0–0	2	6	8	2	1	8	3	1	10
David Thompson	40:00	10–19	5–8	4	1	5	2	2	3	5	2	25
Dan Issel	36:00	9–19	5–5	4	14	18	3	1	0	3	1	23
Jim Price	33:00	7–10	0–0	1	3	4	7	4	0	2	3	14
Bob Wilkerson	32:00	4–11	2–2	1	5	6	7	2	0	8	4	10
Anthony Roberts	21:00	4–8	0–0	0	5	5	1	1	0	3	3	8
Mack Calvin	15:00	3–7	1–2	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	7
Tom LaGarde	13:00	1–2	1–3	2	4	6	1	0	0	1	5	3
Bo Ellis	5:00	0–1	0–0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Robert Smith	4:00	2–3	0–0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	4
Team totals	240:00	45–92	14–20	16	41	57	28	11	11	25	21	104

This season

Denver Nuggets 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 3 in NBA 1977-78.

1 Nov 1977Denver Nuggets 93–110 Cleveland Cavaliers
17 Jan 197889–104 this game
16 Feb 1978Denver Nuggets 87–119 Cleveland Cavaliers
1 Mar 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 110–104 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 19–20
Denver Nuggets: 27–13

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 54, Cleveland Cavaliers 48.

1 Nov 1977Denver Nuggets 93–110 Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Feb 1978Denver Nuggets 87–119 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.