NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers110–106Milwaukee Bucks

Cleveland Cavaliers at Milwaukee Bucks

Date: Friday 15 December 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 34th meetingof 241 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Foots Walker	45:00	5–6	9–13	2	5	7	11	3	0	2	3	19
Campy Russell	44:00	9–22	6–6	1	7	8	7	4	1	2	1	24
Austin Carr	38:00	8–16	2–3	1	0	1	3	1	1	4	3	18
Jim Chones	31:00	7–9	1–1	2	3	5	2	0	1	1	5	15
Jim Brewer	27:00	1–2	0–0	1	5	6	2	0	2	3	1	2
Bingo Smith	19:00	6–10	0–0	0	0	0	1	3	0	2	0	12
Mike Mitchell	16:00	3–5	3–5	1	1	2	0	0	1	1	2	9
Terry Furlow	13:00	4–7	1–1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	9
John Lambert	7:00	1–2	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	2
Team totals	240:00	44–79	22–29	8	23	31	27	12	7	16	20	110

Milwaukee Bucks

Milwaukee Bucks box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Marques Johnson	38:00	9–14	0–0	2	3	5	2	1	3	5	3	18
Brian Winters	35:00	10–18	3–3	0	0	0	5	0	1	5	4	23
John Gianelli	25:00	4–7	0–0	4	3	7	3	0	0	0	3	8
Kent Benson	23:00	4–8	5–6	1	3	4	4	1	2	2	0	13
Lloyd Walton	23:00	4–7	3–5	0	2	2	7	3	0	1	1	11
Junior Bridgeman	21:00	4–11	2–2	3	1	4	2	0	0	1	3	10
George Johnson	21:00	2–5	2–2	1	6	7	2	1	3	3	4	6
Ernie Grunfeld	19:00	3–5	5–6	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	2	11
Quinn Buckner	13:00	1–4	0–0	0	1	1	3	0	0	2	3	2
Kevin Restani	11:00	1–3	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	2
Norm Van Lier	11:00	1–2	0–0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	3	2
Team totals	240:00	43–84	20–24	14	23	37	31	7	9	20	28	106

This season

Milwaukee Bucks 3, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1978-79.

2 Dec 1978Milwaukee Bucks 106–100 Cleveland Cavaliers
15 Dec 1978110–106 this game
2 Jan 1979Milwaukee Bucks 116–113 Cleveland Cavaliers
28 Feb 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 117–139 Milwaukee Bucks

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 9–18
Milwaukee Bucks: 12–20

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Milwaukee Bucks 133, Cleveland Cavaliers 108.

2 Dec 1978Milwaukee Bucks 106–100 Cleveland Cavaliers
2 Jan 1979Milwaukee Bucks 116–113 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.