NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Los Angeles Lakers116–105New York Knicks

Los Angeles Lakers at New York Knicks

Date: Tuesday 5 February 1980
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 241st meetingof 332 played

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	11–19	0–0	0–0	3	14	17	7	0	5	4	3	22
Jamaal Wilkes	8–17	0–0	4–5	0	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	20
Magic Johnson	7–17	0–0	5–7	3	7	10	11	3	0	4	5	19
Norm Nixon	8–13	0–0	2–4	0	4	4	7	2	0	4	5	18
Jim Chones	7–9	0–0	2–2	3	8	11	2	0	1	3	3	16
Michael Cooper	7–11	0–0	1–1	1	3	4	1	2	0	2	0	15
Don Ford	1–2	0–0	0–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Marty Byrnes	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
Spencer Haywood	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2
Ollie Mack	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	51–91	0–0	14–21	10	41	51	30	9	7	19	22	116

New York Knicks

New York Knicks box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Ray Williams	15–27	0–1	2–4	7	3	10	6	2	0	2	6	32
Earl Monroe	7–12	0–0	3–4	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	17
Toby Knight	7–16	0–0	2–3	2	3	5	1	2	0	3	2	16
Bill Cartwright	3–18	0–0	6–6	5	6	11	1	2	0	0	2	12
Michael Ray Richardson	5–19	1–4	0–0	2	6	8	8	3	0	5	5	11
Hollis Copeland	3–8	0–0	2–2	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	2	8
Larry Demic	3–5	0–0	0–2	6	1	7	0	1	0	2	1	6
Joe Meriweather	1–8	0–0	1–2	3	3	6	1	1	1	1	3	3
Geoff Huston	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sly Williams	0–2	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	44–115	1–5	16–23	28	23	51	20	12	1	15	22	105

This season

New York Knicks 0, Los Angeles Lakers 2 in NBA 1979-80.

21 Jan 1980New York Knicks 114–132 Los Angeles Lakers
5 Feb 1980116–105 this game

Records going in

Los Angeles Lakers: 38–17
New York Knicks: 27–28

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: New York Knicks 140, Los Angeles Lakers 192.

21 Jan 1980New York Knicks 114–132 Los Angeles Lakers
17 Feb 1981New York Knicks 87–96 Los Angeles Lakers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.