NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets112–124Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Tuesday 30 October 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 50th meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Calvin Murphy	8–17	0–0	5–7	1	1	2	3	2	0	1	4	21
Moses Malone	8–21	0–0	2–7	10	9	19	3	1	1	3	3	18
Rudy Tomjanovich	7–15	1–2	3–5	2	6	8	1	0	0	1	4	18
Allen Leavell	4–7	0–0	5–5	2	0	2	4	4	1	7	3	13
Robert Reid	4–10	0–0	2–2	3	3	6	3	1	2	4	5	10
Major Jones	4–6	0–0	0–0	6	0	6	1	1	1	1	1	8
Rick Barry	3–5	0–0	2–2	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	2	8
Dwight Jones	3–11	0–0	0–1	1	4	5	2	0	0	0	5	6
Tom Henderson	3–6	0–0	0–0	2	0	2	2	1	0	3	3	6
Rudy White	2–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	4
Team totals	46–100	1–2	19–29	27	24	51	22	10	5	24	31	112

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Randy Smith	9–14	0–0	12–12	0	5	5	10	1	0	3	5	30
Campy Russell	10–20	0–1	4–6	1	4	5	5	3	0	7	0	24
Austin Carr	5–11	0–0	4–4	1	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	14
Mike Mitchell	7–9	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	2	1	0	2	4	14
Dave Robisch	5–9	0–0	2–2	4	2	6	1	0	0	2	2	12
Kenny Carr	5–11	0–0	2–3	5	5	10	2	3	0	0	3	12
John Lambert	5–9	0–0	0–0	2	5	7	1	1	4	2	6	10
Foots Walker	3–5	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	6	1	0	1	3	6
Earl Tatum	0–1	0–0	2–2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2
Bill Willoughby	0–3	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0
Willie Smith	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2	0
Team totals	49–93	0–1	26–29	14	28	42	31	13	4	22	28	124

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 2, Houston Rockets 4 in NBA 1979-80.

30 Oct 1979112–124 this game
28 Nov 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 111–113 Houston Rockets
8 Jan 1980Houston Rockets 118–115 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Jan 1980Cleveland Cavaliers 96–112 Houston Rockets
8 Feb 1980Cleveland Cavaliers 104–105 Houston Rockets
20 Mar 1980Houston Rockets 96–109 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 2–5
Cleveland Cavaliers: 2–7

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 51, Houston Rockets 93.

6 Apr 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 110–112 Houston Rockets
28 Nov 1979Cleveland Cavaliers 111–113 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.