NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets90–101Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Thursday 21 December 1978
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 46th meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Moses Malone	42:00	5–15	5–7	5	13	18	3	4	2	4	3	15
Calvin Murphy	39:00	6–16	6–7	1	0	1	1	1	0	3	3	18
Rick Barry	36:00	12–23	6–6	1	3	4	3	1	1	1	2	30
Rudy Tomjanovich	36:00	3–11	2–2	1	7	8	3	0	2	3	4	8
Robert Reid	22:00	1–4	2–2	0	2	2	1	2	1	1	5	4
Mike Newlin	20:00	4–4	0–0	1	3	4	1	1	0	2	5	8
Dwight Jones	20:00	2–5	1–2	1	3	4	1	1	1	3	2	5
Slick Watts	13:00	0–0	2–2	0	1	1	2	1	0	2	3	2
Mike Dunleavy	12:00	0–3	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	0
Team totals	240:00	33–81	24–28	10	33	43	17	11	7	20	29	90

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	48:00	11–23	5–8	2	6	8	7	3	2	7	2	27
Foots Walker	42:00	3–8	3–4	2	5	7	6	2	2	1	1	9
Austin Carr	37:00	8–13	14–14	2	3	5	4	1	0	3	2	30
Jim Chones	34:00	3–7	0–0	1	14	15	0	0	3	2	5	6
Bingo Smith	26:00	6–12	4–4	3	1	4	1	0	0	0	4	16
Jim Brewer	19:00	1–4	0–0	2	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	2
Terry Furlow	17:00	3–11	2–2	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	8
Mike Mitchell	17:00	1–8	1–3	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	3
Team totals	240:00	36–86	29–35	13	33	46	20	7	8	14	19	101

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 2, Houston Rockets 2 in NBA 1978-79.

21 Dec 197890–101 this game
12 Jan 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 96–107 Houston Rockets
1 Apr 1979Houston Rockets 105–114 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Apr 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 110–112 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 15–13
Cleveland Cavaliers: 11–20

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 51, Houston Rockets 93.

14 Mar 1978Houston Rockets 98–119 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Jan 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 96–107 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.