NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers111–109Atlanta Hawks

Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks

Date: Friday 7 April 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 46th meetingof 263 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	43:00	7–12	8–9	0	1	1	2	1	0	2	4	22
Jim Chones	39:00	4–8	1–1	3	13	16	2	0	0	4	4	9
Elmore Smith	38:00	8–18	3–4	4	9	13	1	1	5	3	2	19
Foots Walker	34:00	5–9	7–8	0	1	1	5	3	0	1	3	17
Campy Russell	29:00	12–20	3–8	1	3	4	2	3	0	2	4	27
Terry Furlow	19:00	3–9	7–9	0	4	4	1	0	0	3	2	13
Bingo Smith	19:00	0–4	0–0	1	1	2	1	0	1	1	3	0
John Lambert	15:00	2–4	0–0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	5	4
Jim Brewer	4:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	41–84	29–39	9	33	42	15	9	6	18	27	111

Atlanta Hawks

Atlanta Hawks box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Steve Hawes	44:00	8–13	4–4	4	17	21	7	0	0	3	1	20
John Drew	34:00	12–23	5–6	2	1	3	0	0	2	1	4	29
Eddie Johnson	31:00	5–10	7–7	1	2	3	3	0	0	1	5	17
Armond Hill	29:00	0–7	2–2	1	1	2	3	1	0	2	5	2
Tom McMillen	27:00	5–13	3–3	4	4	8	1	0	0	0	4	13
Tree Rollins	21:00	3–6	3–4	3	4	7	0	0	1	4	4	9
Charlie Criss	19:00	2–7	1–2	0	1	1	3	1	0	0	3	5
Tony Robertson	17:00	4–7	0–0	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	2	8
Ollie Johnson	14:00	3–3	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	6
John Brown	4:00	0–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Team totals	240:00	42–91	25–28	15	31	46	20	5	3	13	31	109

This season

Atlanta Hawks 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 3 in NBA 1977-78.

22 Oct 1977Cleveland Cavaliers 101–107 Atlanta Hawks
10 Dec 1977Atlanta Hawks 87–102 Cleveland Cavaliers
22 Jan 1978Atlanta Hawks 89–93 Cleveland Cavaliers
7 Apr 1978111–109 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 41–39
Atlanta Hawks: 40–40

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Atlanta Hawks 135, Cleveland Cavaliers 128.

22 Jan 1978Atlanta Hawks 89–93 Cleveland Cavaliers
28 Nov 1978Atlanta Hawks 98–112 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.