NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Chicago Bulls117–124New York Knicks

Chicago Bulls at New York Knicks

Date: Saturday 5 January 1980
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 68th meetingof 277 played

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Artis Gilmore	11–16	0–0	5–7	6	5	11	4	1	0	6	5	27
Reggie Theus	7–11	0–1	7–10	1	1	2	10	2	0	4	4	21
Dave Greenwood	8–15	0–0	3–3	2	3	5	1	0	1	2	4	19
Ollie Johnson	5–10	0–1	3–3	0	1	1	3	2	0	3	2	13
Dwight Jones	5–5	0–0	2–2	2	1	3	1	0	0	1	2	12
Ricky Sobers	4–13	0–1	2–4	1	6	7	5	0	0	5	3	10
John Mengelt	3–4	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	6
Coby Dietrick	2–5	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	4	4
Del Beshore	1–2	0–0	1–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3
Mark Landsberger	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
Team totals	47–82	0–3	23–31	12	20	32	27	5	1	27	28	117

New York Knicks

New York Knicks box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Toby Knight	14–19	0–0	6–6	2	3	5	3	4	3	1	2	34
Ray Williams	10–19	0–0	3–5	3	4	7	9	1	0	4	5	23
Bill Cartwright	5–8	0–0	8–8	0	5	5	5	0	3	4	5	18
Larry Demic	6–8	0–0	5–7	4	2	6	0	3	0	3	4	17
Mike Glenn	3–6	0–0	4–4	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	10
Michael Ray Richardson	4–8	0–1	0–0	1	2	3	10	3	0	4	4	8
Joe Meriweather	1–4	0–0	4–4	1	4	5	0	2	2	1	5	6
Hollis Copeland	2–4	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	4
Earl Monroe	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Geoff Huston	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	2
Team totals	47–82	0–1	30–34	11	21	32	32	15	9	19	29	124

This season

New York Knicks 2, Chicago Bulls 0 in NBA 1979-80.

28 Dec 1979New York Knicks 120–102 Chicago Bulls
5 Jan 1980117–124 this game

Records going in

Chicago Bulls: 13–25
New York Knicks: 21–21

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: New York Knicks 129, Chicago Bulls 148.

28 Dec 1979New York Knicks 120–102 Chicago Bulls
21 Oct 1980Chicago Bulls 97–105 New York Knicks

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.