NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

New Orleans Jazz105–96Cleveland Cavaliers

New Orleans Jazz at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Saturday 24 February 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 25th meetingof 118 played

New Orleans Jazz

New Orleans Jazz box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Spencer Haywood	44:00	14–28	3–4	3	9	12	1	0	1	4	3	31
Rich Kelley	40:00	5–9	3–4	2	12	14	8	1	3	5	4	13
Jim McElroy	39:00	7–19	5–6	0	2	2	6	1	0	1	3	19
James Hardy	34:00	4–6	0–2	0	8	8	1	0	1	4	1	8
Ron Lee	28:00	5–6	2–2	1	2	3	2	1	0	2	3	12
Gail Goodrich	23:00	6–9	2–3	1	1	2	0	1	0	4	5	14
Aaron James	13:00	3–6	0–0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	5	6
Paul Griffin	9:00	1–2	0–2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Tommie Green	6:00	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Byrnes	4:00	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
Team totals	240:00	45–86	15–23	9	37	46	22	4	5	21	24	105

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	45:00	9–15	1–2	1	8	9	10	1	0	3	2	19
Austin Carr	34:00	6–16	5–5	4	4	8	3	2	0	3	3	17
Jim Chones	25:00	4–11	1–2	5	5	10	1	0	0	0	5	9
Bingo Smith	24:00	4–14	0–0	1	5	6	2	1	0	0	3	8
Kenny Higgs	24:00	3–6	0–0	0	3	3	4	0	0	3	4	6
Mike Mitchell	23:00	8–14	1–2	2	1	3	2	0	0	1	1	17
Foots Walker	21:00	1–5	2–2	2	2	4	4	1	0	1	2	4
Butch Lee	17:00	4–8	2–2	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	0	10
Elmore Smith	17:00	2–6	0–0	2	2	4	0	1	3	3	2	4
Harry Davis	4:00	1–3	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2
John Lambert	1:00	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Team totals	235:00	42–99	12–15	17	31	48	28	6	3	17	26	96

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 2, Utah Jazz 2 in NBA 1978-79.

24 Oct 1978New Orleans Jazz 104–122 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Jan 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 105–94 New Orleans Jazz
24 Feb 1979105–96 this game
24 Mar 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 117–139 New Orleans Jazz

Records going in

New Orleans Jazz: 20–43
Cleveland Cavaliers: 25–35

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 55, Utah Jazz 63.

6 Jan 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 105–94 New Orleans Jazz
24 Mar 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 117–139 New Orleans Jazz

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.