NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Denver Nuggets98–114Detroit Pistons

Denver Nuggets at Detroit Pistons

Date: Friday 28 December 1979
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 13th meetingof 103 played

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Bob Wilkerson	—	12–27	0–0	4–5	1	7	8	2	0	0	2	5	28
Charlie Scott	—	10–20	0–1	0–0	2	2	4	5	1	0	1	0	20
Dan Issel	—	6–17	0–0	1–2	2	5	7	0	0	2	1	3	13
George Johnson	—	4–8	0–0	5–7	3	10	13	3	2	1	5	5	13
Glen Gondrezick	—	3–5	0–0	2–2	1	4	5	1	0	1	0	0	8
John Roche	—	3–9	0–1	2–2	0	0	0	4	0	1	3	1	8
Gary Garland	—	3–4	0–0	0–0	2	0	2	3	0	0	3	1	6
Kim Hughes	—	1–4	0–0	0–0	3	4	7	1	1	2	1	3	2
Team totals	—	42–94	0–2	14–18	14	32	46	19	4	7	16	18	98

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Eric Money	29:00	10–13	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	3	1	0	4	4	20
John Long	—	15–21	0–0	2–2	3	3	6	6	1	0	0	2	32
Bob McAdoo	—	7–18	0–0	1–3	3	7	10	6	3	2	6	3	15
Leon Douglas	—	5–14	0–0	5–7	4	11	15	4	0	0	1	3	15
Terry Tyler	—	7–13	0–0	0–0	2	7	9	1	0	3	0	5	14
Phil Hubbard	—	4–11	0–0	3–4	2	5	7	2	2	0	2	4	11
Roy Hamilton	—	1–4	0–0	2–2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	4
Earl Evans	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
Jim McElroy	—	0–1	0–0	1–1	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	1
Team totals	29:00	50–97	0–0	14–19	16	37	53	24	7	6	16	22	114

This season

Detroit Pistons 1, Denver Nuggets 1 in NBA 1979-80.

28 Dec 197998–114 this game
2 Jan 1980Detroit Pistons 116–135 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Denver Nuggets: 14–24
Detroit Pistons: 9–28

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Detroit Pistons 54, Denver Nuggets 49.

28 Mar 1979Denver Nuggets 115–110 Detroit Pistons
2 Jan 1980Detroit Pistons 116–135 Denver Nuggets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.