NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers93–110Denver Nuggets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Denver Nuggets

Date: Friday 3 November 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 9th meetingof 102 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	42:00	9–24	3–6	6	2	8	1	1	0	2	3	21
Jim Chones	38:00	5–17	2–2	2	3	5	3	1	0	0	4	12
Austin Carr	34:00	8–20	2–3	2	3	5	3	2	0	4	2	18
Walt Frazier	30:00	7–14	0–1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	14
Jim Brewer	29:00	0–4	0–0	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	3	0
Terry Furlow	27:00	4–8	6–9	1	2	3	0	1	0	3	1	14
John Lambert	18:00	4–10	2–2	5	4	9	0	1	0	2	3	10
Mike Mitchell	17:00	1–7	0–0	3	6	9	3	2	1	2	1	2
Kenny Higgs	5:00	0–2	2–4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Team totals	240:00	38–106	17–27	19	22	41	13	10	2	14	21	93

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Dan Issel	37:00	6–10	4–5	3	7	10	4	1	1	3	5	16
George McGinnis	34:00	6–13	8–10	2	14	16	4	0	2	5	3	20
David Thompson	33:00	11–16	7–10	1	3	4	1	1	1	0	1	29
Bob Wilkerson	32:00	4–7	0–0	0	5	5	5	1	0	5	3	8
Tom Boswell	28:00	6–9	0–0	2	3	5	5	0	2	3	2	12
Anthony Roberts	23:00	6–9	0–0	0	2	2	3	1	0	2	2	12
Charlie Scott	21:00	1–5	0–0	0	1	1	7	0	0	2	3	2
Robert Smith	15:00	3–7	2–2	2	2	4	5	1	0	0	2	8
Kim Hughes	12:00	0–0	0–0	1	4	5	0	0	3	3	3	0
Geoff Crompton	5:00	1–2	1–2	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	3
Team totals	240:00	44–78	22–29	12	41	53	34	5	10	24	27	110

This season

Denver Nuggets 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1978-79.

3 Nov 197893–110 this game
23 Jan 1979Denver Nuggets 107–108 Cleveland Cavaliers
7 Feb 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 105–120 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 4–5
Denver Nuggets: 6–3

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 54, Cleveland Cavaliers 48.

1 Mar 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 110–104 Denver Nuggets
23 Jan 1979Denver Nuggets 107–108 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.