NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers100–108Chicago Bulls

Cleveland Cavaliers at Chicago Bulls

Date: Saturday 16 December 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 34th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	45:00	10–20	3–5	2	4	6	2	0	0	1	3	23
Foots Walker	45:00	5–9	2–3	2	5	7	8	2	1	3	4	12
Jim Chones	33:00	7–13	0–0	6	5	11	1	1	1	2	6	14
Austin Carr	30:00	4–13	5–7	2	2	4	2	0	0	3	3	13
Jim Brewer	24:00	0–6	0–0	2	0	2	1	1	1	2	1	0
Terry Furlow	21:00	8–13	0–0	1	2	3	2	1	0	4	3	16
Mike Mitchell	20:00	6–8	2–2	2	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	14
Bingo Smith	17:00	3–7	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	3	6
John Lambert	5:00	1–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Team totals	240:00	44–91	12–17	17	20	37	19	5	3	15	25	100

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Artis Gilmore	45:00	7–15	4–6	4	12	16	5	1	2	5	2	18
Mickey Johnson	41:00	7–14	5–6	4	8	12	10	1	0	3	5	19
Ollie Johnson	37:00	10–16	3–5	4	3	7	4	1	2	2	5	23
Wilbur Holland	35:00	6–10	2–3	0	3	3	5	4	0	2	3	14
Reggie Theus	31:00	6–11	2–2	0	0	0	5	1	0	3	5	14
John Mengelt	30:00	5–8	4–5	0	1	1	6	0	0	2	3	14
John Brown	12:00	1–2	2–2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
Mark Landsberger	6:00	1–1	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
Scott Lloyd	3:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	43–77	22–29	13	29	42	37	8	4	18	23	108

This season

Chicago Bulls 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 3 in NBA 1978-79.

21 Oct 1978Chicago Bulls 104–113 Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Dec 1978100–108 this game
21 Jan 1979Chicago Bulls 93–94 Cleveland Cavaliers
25 Feb 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 117–108 Chicago Bulls

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 10–18
Chicago Bulls: 11–17

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Chicago Bulls 152, Cleveland Cavaliers 121.

21 Oct 1978Chicago Bulls 104–113 Cleveland Cavaliers
21 Jan 1979Chicago Bulls 93–94 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.