NBA 1978-79Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers109–115Atlanta Hawks

Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks

Date: Tuesday 20 March 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1978-79Regular season
Meeting: 50th meetingof 263 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Campy Russell	44:00	8–18	11–13	1	8	9	5	2	0	4	4	27
Austin Carr	40:00	11–20	1–1	4	0	4	3	0	0	0	4	23
Jim Chones	31:00	8–10	3–4	5	6	11	2	0	3	4	2	19
Kenny Higgs	29:00	0–5	3–4	2	4	6	8	0	0	0	4	3
Bingo Smith	27:00	7–10	2–2	1	2	3	1	0	1	1	2	16
Butch Lee	27:00	4–8	3–6	1	1	2	1	0	0	2	5	11
Mike Mitchell	25:00	1–7	2–2	1	2	3	1	2	0	0	6	4
Elmore Smith	17:00	3–5	0–0	1	4	5	1	1	0	3	1	6
Team totals	240:00	42–83	25–32	16	27	43	22	5	4	14	28	109

Atlanta Hawks

Atlanta Hawks box score
Player	MIN	FG	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Dan Roundfield	36:00	13–18	4–4	5	7	12	4	1	5	2	5	30
Eddie Johnson	35:00	8–13	0–0	0	1	1	8	0	0	1	1	16
John Drew	32:00	10–18	13–17	2	6	8	0	0	1	2	2	33
Armond Hill	31:00	1–8	4–5	0	1	1	10	0	0	2	4	6
Tree Rollins	28:00	4–5	0–0	1	3	4	3	0	2	0	3	8
Steve Hawes	20:00	2–4	0–0	3	4	7	0	2	1	0	3	4
Jack Givens	16:00	3–5	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6
Terry Furlow	15:00	3–6	2–2	1	3	4	3	1	0	4	0	8
Charlie Criss	15:00	1–4	2–2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4
Tom McMillen	12:00	0–4	0–0	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	3	0
Team totals	240:00	45–85	25–30	13	29	42	30	4	9	12	22	115

This season

Atlanta Hawks 3, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1978-79.

28 Nov 1978Atlanta Hawks 98–112 Cleveland Cavaliers
25 Dec 1978Cleveland Cavaliers 91–109 Atlanta Hawks
20 Feb 1979Atlanta Hawks 119–109 Cleveland Cavaliers
20 Mar 1979109–115 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 28–43
Atlanta Hawks: 39–33

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Atlanta Hawks 135, Cleveland Cavaliers 128.

20 Feb 1979Atlanta Hawks 119–109 Cleveland Cavaliers
23 Oct 1979Atlanta Hawks 121–111 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.