NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers103–106Los Angeles Lakers

Cleveland Cavaliers at Los Angeles Lakers

Date: Friday 9 February 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 35th meetingof 127 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	47:00	14–29	3–4	2	13	15	9	1	1	3	2	31
Austin Carr	39:00	3–9	1–2	1	0	1	1	0	0	3	4	7
Jim Chones	35:00	3–11	1–4	6	13	19	3	0	1	4	2	7
Butch Lee	33:00	10–20	2–3	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	22
Mike Mitchell	30:00	6–12	6–6	2	3	5	1	0	0	3	2	18
Kenny Higgs	24:00	3–3	2–4	0	2	2	6	2	1	1	3	8
Bingo Smith	19:00	5–8	0–0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	10
John Lambert	11:00	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	4	0
Jim Brewer	2:00	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	240:00	44–92	15–23	14	33	47	25	4	3	16	20	103

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	44:00	9–20	5–8	1	15	16	7	0	4	0	2	23
Norm Nixon	42:00	10–15	1–1	0	0	0	12	5	0	1	1	21
Jamaal Wilkes	40:00	12–19	5–6	1	7	8	4	1	1	1	4	29
Adrian Dantley	31:00	2–6	0–0	0	2	2	3	2	0	3	5	4
Lou Hudson	27:00	3–8	0–0	0	1	1	2	2	0	2	3	6
Ron Boone	21:00	4–7	3–4	0	1	1	0	0	0	4	1	11
Don Ford	15:00	3–4	0–0	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	5	6
Kenny Carr	8:00	3–3	0–0	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	2	6
Dave Robisch	6:00	0–3	0–0	2	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Price	6:00	0–3	0–0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
Team totals	240:00	46–88	14–19	6	34	40	32	11	6	13	24	106

This season

Los Angeles Lakers 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1978-79.

17 Oct 1978Los Angeles Lakers 111–113 Cleveland Cavaliers
5 Nov 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 107–117 Los Angeles Lakers
9 Feb 1979103–106 this game
13 Feb 1979Los Angeles Lakers 111–117 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 21–32
Los Angeles Lakers: 34–20

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Lakers 71, Cleveland Cavaliers 56.

5 Nov 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 107–117 Los Angeles Lakers
13 Feb 1979Los Angeles Lakers 111–117 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.