NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Detroit Pistons120–116Cleveland Cavaliers

Detroit Pistons at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Thursday 1 February 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 36th meetingof 273 played

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
M.L. Carr	46:00	11–15	7–8	2	8	10	6	2	0	6	4	29
Kevin Porter	41:00	4–11	7–7	0	2	2	16	4	0	4	5	15
John Long	38:00	4–9	0–0	1	2	3	1	1	0	2	3	8
Bob Lanier	37:00	12–23	5–7	2	3	5	2	1	1	1	5	29
Terry Tyler	29:00	9–13	0–0	2	4	6	1	0	1	2	2	18
Leon Douglas	28:00	7–7	2–2	2	4	6	0	0	0	2	4	16
Earl Tatum	8:00	2–4	0–0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	4
Andre Wakefield	7:00	0–0	1–2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
Ben Poquette	4:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Steve Sheppard	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	49–82	22–26	9	26	35	27	8	3	18	24	120

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Austin Carr	46:00	11–21	4–4	1	1	2	4	0	0	3	3	26
Campy Russell	37:00	11–19	7–9	5	5	10	5	0	0	4	3	29
Jim Chones	36:00	4–12	2–2	1	5	6	5	0	2	3	3	10
Kenny Higgs	33:00	8–10	2–2	0	4	4	4	3	1	1	3	18
Mike Mitchell	25:00	6–12	2–3	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	6	14
Jim Brewer	22:00	1–1	0–0	0	3	3	1	1	0	0	5	2
Bingo Smith	18:00	2–7	1–1	2	0	2	4	0	1	1	1	5
Butch Lee	17:00	4–8	0–0	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	2	8
John Lambert	6:00	2–2	0–0	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
Team totals	240:00	49–92	18–21	13	20	33	27	4	4	15	26	116

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 1, Detroit Pistons 3 in NBA 1978-79.

25 Oct 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 105–110 Detroit Pistons
7 Dec 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 105–121 Detroit Pistons
12 Dec 1978Detroit Pistons 110–127 Cleveland Cavaliers
1 Feb 1979120–116 this game

Records going in

Detroit Pistons: 18–32
Cleveland Cavaliers: 20–29

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 129, Detroit Pistons 144.

12 Dec 1978Detroit Pistons 110–127 Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Oct 1979Detroit Pistons 117–137 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.