NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Denver Nuggets116–117Houston Rockets

Denver Nuggets at Houston Rockets

Date: Wednesday 24 January 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 8th meetingof 217 played

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
George McGinnis	41:00	11–19	12–20	3	11	14	3	0	0	9	6	34
Dan Issel	36:00	10–13	2–3	1	6	7	1	0	0	3	3	22
Charlie Scott	35:00	9–18	1–3	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	2	19
Robert Smith	35:00	7–9	3–3	0	2	2	8	1	0	1	3	17
Bob Wilkerson	30:00	5–13	1–2	1	5	6	2	0	0	1	0	11
Tom Boswell	27:00	4–8	0–0	5	2	7	4	1	1	3	2	8
Anthony Roberts	14:00	0–3	1–2	1	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	1
Kim Hughes	12:00	2–2	0–0	2	1	3	0	0	1	1	2	4
John Kuester	10:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Team totals	240:00	48–86	20–33	13	29	42	22	3	2	23	20	116

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Moses Malone	48:00	10–15	5–7	7	10	17	3	1	2	3	3	25
Calvin Murphy	36:00	9–16	8–8	1	1	2	1	1	0	2	2	26
Rudy Tomjanovich	34:00	13–19	0–0	2	4	6	0	1	0	1	3	26
Robert Reid	32:00	7–12	0–0	1	3	4	3	0	3	1	4	14
Rick Barry	30:00	5–14	0–0	0	4	4	5	1	0	1	5	10
Mike Newlin	21:00	0–5	0–0	0	0	0	7	1	0	4	4	0
Mike Dunleavy	19:00	5–6	2–2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	5	12
Slick Watts	16:00	2–3	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4
Dwight Jones	4:00	0–4	0–0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0
Team totals	240:00	51–94	15–17	13	22	35	22	6	5	14	29	117

This season

Houston Rockets 3, Denver Nuggets 1 in NBA 1978-79.

29 Oct 1978Houston Rockets 121–134 Denver Nuggets
24 Jan 1979116–117 this game
28 Feb 1979Denver Nuggets 97–122 Houston Rockets
6 Mar 1979Houston Rockets 119–118 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Denver Nuggets: 26–23
Houston Rockets: 26–19

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 112, Denver Nuggets 105.

29 Oct 1978Houston Rockets 121–134 Denver Nuggets
28 Feb 1979Denver Nuggets 97–122 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.