NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets99–101Chicago Bulls

Houston Rockets at Chicago Bulls

Date: Tuesday 21 March 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 57th meetingof 151 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Calvin Murphy	45:00	19–29	0–0	1	4	5	3	2	0	2	5	38
John Lucas	41:00	8–13	0–0	0	0	0	14	1	0	1	3	16
Kevin Kunnert	35:00	6–14	0–0	1	4	5	2	1	2	3	4	12
Dwight Jones	34:00	6–10	2–2	2	4	6	6	1	2	0	3	14
Ed Ratleff	30:00	0–3	4–4	0	5	5	4	1	0	0	2	4
Robert Reid	26:00	6–9	1–1	1	2	3	0	2	1	3	6	13
C.J. Kupec	14:00	0–1	0–0	0	4	4	2	0	0	2	1	0
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	13:00	0–3	2–2	1	4	5	1	0	0	1	3	2
Mike Dunleavy	2:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	45–83	9–9	6	27	33	32	8	5	12	27	99

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Norm Van Lier	39:00	6–10	4–5	2	1	3	9	0	0	0	3	16
Artis Gilmore	37:00	8–10	4–4	2	10	12	1	0	1	3	1	20
Mark Landsberger	33:00	6–13	4–8	2	11	13	1	0	1	1	1	16
Mickey Johnson	26:00	4–10	6–9	2	1	3	1	0	0	2	3	14
Wilbur Holland	24:00	0–3	0–0	1	1	2	8	0	0	1	1	0
John Mengelt	23:00	7–9	5–6	0	0	0	6	2	0	1	1	19
Steve Sheppard	17:00	4–6	0–0	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	2	8
Cazzie Russell	17:00	2–6	0–0	1	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	4
Cliff Pondexter	11:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	0
Tate Armstrong	10:00	2–4	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4
Derrek Dickey	3:00	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	39–73	23–32	10	30	40	32	2	4	13	13	101

This season

Chicago Bulls 3, Houston Rockets 1 in NBA 1977-78.

19 Oct 1977Chicago Bulls 107–103 Houston Rockets
8 Nov 1977Houston Rockets 104–117 Chicago Bulls
8 Feb 1978Chicago Bulls 101–105 Houston Rockets
21 Mar 197899–101 this game

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 24–48
Chicago Bulls: 35–37

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Chicago Bulls 74, Houston Rockets 77.

8 Feb 1978Chicago Bulls 101–105 Houston Rockets
15 Nov 1978Chicago Bulls 117–103 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.