NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Los Angeles Lakers111–113Cleveland Cavaliers

Los Angeles Lakers at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Tuesday 17 October 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 33rd meetingof 127 played

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Adrian Dantley	41:00	11–17	9–12	3	1	4	1	2	0	0	3	31
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	38:00	9–16	5–7	5	6	11	3	1	4	5	2	23
Norm Nixon	37:00	7–16	4–4	1	0	1	8	5	0	2	5	18
Ron Boone	35:00	6–10	2–2	2	3	5	1	0	0	3	4	14
Jamaal Wilkes	34:00	5–13	3–4	1	3	4	1	1	0	2	5	13
Kenny Carr	21:00	3–7	2–4	0	7	7	0	1	2	2	3	8
Brad Davis	11:00	1–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2
Dave Robisch	10:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
Lou Hudson	7:00	0–2	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Ron Carter	6:00	0–1	2–3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
Team totals	240:00	42–84	27–36	12	21	33	17	10	6	15	29	111

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	44:00	7–17	8–11	3	6	9	3	3	0	5	5	22
Jim Chones	33:00	7–17	1–1	5	8	13	1	0	4	0	1	15
Foots Walker	32:00	9–12	8–8	1	0	1	6	1	0	3	5	26
Jim Brewer	31:00	2–6	0–0	4	11	15	2	1	1	5	2	4
Austin Carr	26:00	5–10	5–7	4	2	6	1	1	0	0	3	15
Walt Frazier	21:00	2–6	3–4	1	2	3	2	0	0	2	2	7
Terry Furlow	17:00	4–10	4–5	2	1	3	0	1	0	3	2	12
John Lambert	15:00	3–4	1–3	0	1	1	2	1	2	3	5	7
Mike Mitchell	11:00	0–3	1–3	2	2	4	0	0	0	1	2	1
Harry Davis	10:00	2–3	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	4	4
Team totals	240:00	41–88	31–42	23	34	57	17	8	7	23	31	113

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 2, Los Angeles Lakers 2 in NBA 1978-79.

17 Oct 1978111–113 this game
5 Nov 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 107–117 Los Angeles Lakers
9 Feb 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 103–106 Los Angeles Lakers
13 Feb 1979Los Angeles Lakers 111–117 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Los Angeles Lakers: 0–2
Cleveland Cavaliers: 1–0

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 56, Los Angeles Lakers 71.

5 Mar 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 117–128 Los Angeles Lakers
5 Nov 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 107–117 Los Angeles Lakers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.