NBA 1977-78Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers120–117Kansas City Kings

Cleveland Cavaliers at Kansas City Kings

Date: Sunday 9 April 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1977-78Regular season
Meeting: 38th meetingof 131 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	41:00	11–19	9–11	2	2	4	5	0	0	0	2	31
Foots Walker	41:00	3–11	4–5	2	4	6	7	6	0	3	4	10
Jim Chones	37:00	4–10	2–2	3	9	12	2	0	0	1	1	10
Austin Carr	34:00	10–15	10–11	1	1	2	2	4	0	2	2	30
Elmore Smith	33:00	7–13	3–4	3	5	8	0	1	4	2	4	17
John Lambert	24:00	1–7	2–2	4	6	10	0	0	3	2	1	4
Terry Furlow	21:00	5–15	0–0	2	2	4	1	0	1	2	1	10
Bingo Smith	7:00	4–4	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
Jim Brewer	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	45–94	30–35	17	30	47	17	11	8	12	16	120

Kansas City Kings

Kansas City Kings box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Scott Wedman	38:00	10–16	3–3	3	2	5	0	2	1	3	3	23
Otis Birdsong	33:00	8–13	6–8	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	3	22
Ron Boone	29:00	5–13	2–2	1	1	2	6	1	0	4	2	12
Bob Nash	26:00	7–11	0–0	3	3	6	3	2	0	2	2	14
Sam Lacey	25:00	3–6	0–0	3	6	9	5	0	1	4	5	6
Bill Robinzine	23:00	5–10	1–2	1	6	7	1	0	0	1	2	11
Lucius Allen	21:00	4–7	1–1	1	4	5	3	1	1	1	1	9
Richard Washington	19:00	4–9	0–0	1	2	3	1	1	2	2	5	8
John Kuester	13:00	2–7	2–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
Kevin Restani	13:00	3–5	0–0	0	5	5	0	0	0	2	2	6
Team totals	240:00	51–97	15–18	13	30	43	23	7	5	19	26	117

This season

Sacramento Kings 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1977-78.

27 Oct 1977Kansas City Kings 119–104 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Feb 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 88–101 Kansas City Kings
18 Feb 1978Kansas City Kings 101–105 Cleveland Cavaliers
9 Apr 1978120–117 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 42–39
Kansas City Kings: 31–50

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Sacramento Kings 67, Cleveland Cavaliers 64.

18 Feb 1978Kansas City Kings 101–105 Cleveland Cavaliers
1 Nov 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 107–122 Kansas City Kings

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.