NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Milwaukee Bucks103–113Denver Nuggets

Milwaukee Bucks at Denver Nuggets

Date: Saturday 9 December 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 17th meetingof 116 played

Milwaukee Bucks

Milwaukee Bucks box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Marques Johnson	39:00	13–20	5–10	2	2	4	4	2	1	4	1	31
Brian Winters	37:00	11–25	3–3	0	1	1	5	1	0	5	5	25
Kent Benson	34:00	6–8	4–6	3	7	10	3	1	2	2	3	16
Kevin Restani	28:00	3–7	2–2	2	5	7	0	1	2	1	4	8
Quinn Buckner	27:00	3–4	1–2	0	2	2	4	0	0	1	2	7
John Gianelli	25:00	2–5	0–0	1	5	6	2	3	0	2	3	4
Ernie Grunfeld	20:00	2–11	0–0	3	3	6	5	2	0	2	4	4
Norm Van Lier	18:00	0–5	2–2	0	1	1	5	1	0	1	5	2
Junior Bridgeman	7:00	3–4	0–1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6
George Johnson	5:00	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	1	2	0	1	1	0
Team totals	240:00	43–89	17–26	12	29	41	29	13	5	19	29	103

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
George McGinnis	40:00	7–17	9–11	2	6	8	5	4	1	7	3	23
Charlie Scott	37:00	6–12	5–7	1	6	7	9	0	0	4	2	17
Bob Wilkerson	36:00	4–11	0–0	0	8	8	6	0	0	2	3	8
Tom Boswell	35:00	7–12	2–5	5	6	11	3	1	0	4	5	16
Dan Issel	34:00	12–16	4–8	5	5	10	2	0	1	4	0	28
David Thompson	27:00	3–7	7–9	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	5	13
Robert Smith	13:00	3–5	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	6
Kim Hughes	12:00	1–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2
Geoff Crompton	6:00	0–0	0–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	240:00	43–82	27–42	14	33	47	29	5	3	24	22	113

This season

Denver Nuggets 2, Milwaukee Bucks 2 in NBA 1978-79.

28 Nov 1978Denver Nuggets 100–117 Milwaukee Bucks
9 Dec 1978103–113 this game
11 Feb 1979Denver Nuggets 87–126 Milwaukee Bucks
24 Feb 1979Milwaukee Bucks 117–132 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Milwaukee Bucks: 11–18
Denver Nuggets: 13–13

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 72, Milwaukee Bucks 44.

28 Nov 1978Denver Nuggets 100–117 Milwaukee Bucks
11 Feb 1979Denver Nuggets 87–126 Milwaukee Bucks

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.