NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Los Angeles Lakers124–106Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Lakers at Houston Rockets

Date: Wednesday 22 March 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 58th meetingof 285 played

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	41:00	13–18	5–6	1	13	14	2	1	8	3	2	31
Adrian Dantley	34:00	4–9	4–6	1	3	4	5	1	0	3	2	12
Lou Hudson	33:00	7–12	1–1	1	3	4	0	1	0	1	1	15
Norm Nixon	31:00	8–12	2–3	0	2	2	4	2	0	4	1	18
Kenny Carr	31:00	6–9	2–3	1	7	8	1	0	1	2	3	14
Charlie Scott	30:00	8–13	4–6	0	1	1	3	1	0	1	1	20
Don Ford	17:00	5–8	0–0	1	1	2	1	0	2	2	2	10
Tom Abernethy	14:00	1–2	2–2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
Dave Robisch	7:00	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	0
Brad Davis	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	52–83	20–27	6	32	38	20	6	11	18	13	124

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Calvin Murphy	44:00	16–32	4–4	1	1	2	2	2	0	3	3	36
Kevin Kunnert	38:00	6–10	1–3	8	7	15	1	1	1	2	6	13
John Lucas	33:00	2–7	1–2	0	1	1	5	1	0	0	2	5
Robert Reid	31:00	5–12	1–1	2	1	3	4	1	2	3	6	11
Alonzo Bradley	29:00	7–16	0–0	1	2	3	1	0	0	2	2	14
Dwight Jones	29:00	6–14	1–3	5	6	11	1	1	1	1	3	13
Ed Ratleff	23:00	4–6	0–0	0	5	5	5	3	0	1	3	8
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	10:00	3–5	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	6
C.J. Kupec	3:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	49–102	8–13	18	23	41	19	9	4	12	26	106

This season

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

9 Dec 1977Houston Rockets 116–105 Los Angeles Lakers
14 Dec 1977Los Angeles Lakers 113–91 Houston Rockets
22 Jan 1978Houston Rockets 101–106 Los Angeles Lakers
22 Mar 1978124–106 this game

Records going in

Los Angeles Lakers: 38–33
Houston Rockets: 24–49

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

22 Jan 1978Houston Rockets 101–106 Los Angeles Lakers
22 Nov 1978Los Angeles Lakers 121–114 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.