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NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final/OT

Houston Rockets118–115Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date
Arena
Not recorded
Season
NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting
52nd meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
John Shumate12:000–10–00–0235101130
Moses Malone—18–320–04–51110213115540
Calvin Murphy—7–160–04–51011102518
Rick Barry—7–132–40–00008031416
Rudy Tomjanovich—6–110–10–01450102312
Allen Leavell—5–110–00–03256202110
Major Jones—3–50–02–2235000428
Tom Henderson—2–50–02–2011200216
Mike Dunleavy—2–50–00–0000730234
Robert Reid—2–70–00–0033240204
Team totals12:0052–1062–512–14202646301252327118

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Mike Mitchell—16–270–12–33471104334
Dave Robisch—7–110–02–22132024316
Austin Carr—6–90–00–02134102112
John Lambert—5–100–12–21342010512
Kenny Carr—4–110–03–31673213411
Randy Smith—5–120–11–21235006211
Campy Russell—3–100–01–1044400537
Bill Willoughby—3–50–00–0202100026
Foots Walker—3–40–00–0044951116
Team totals—52–990–311–1312253731952524115

This season

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

Records going in

Houston Rockets
18–22
Cleveland Cavaliers
19–23

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

Every meeting

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.