NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets100–112Los Angeles Lakers

Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers

Date: Sunday 24 February 1980
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 63rd meetingof 285 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Billy Paultz	34:00	2–7	0–0	1–2	4	5	9	6	1	2	4	1	5
Moses Malone	—	9–15	0–0	11–15	9	8	17	1	0	3	3	4	29
Calvin Murphy	—	11–23	0–0	6–7	1	0	1	2	2	1	2	4	28
Rudy Tomjanovich	—	5–12	2–3	3–3	5	7	12	5	0	0	3	3	15
Allen Leavell	—	5–9	0–0	3–4	0	0	0	4	8	0	4	4	13
Mike Dunleavy	—	3–8	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	2	0	0	3	2	6
Rick Barry	—	2–11	0–5	0–0	2	2	4	4	0	0	3	2	4
Alonzo Bradley	—	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Major Jones	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
Tom Henderson	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	34:00	37–92	2–8	24–31	23	28	51	24	11	6	23	22	100

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Jamaal Wilkes	—	11–19	1–1	6–9	3	4	7	3	4	1	3	4	29
Norm Nixon	—	8–15	0–0	2–2	0	2	2	11	3	0	4	2	18
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	—	6–7	0–0	3–4	1	5	6	3	0	6	2	3	15
Jim Chones	—	5–10	0–0	4–4	0	6	6	2	1	0	1	3	14
Mark Landsberger	—	4–8	0–0	2–5	3	4	7	1	1	0	0	3	10
Magic Johnson	—	3–8	0–0	2–4	4	4	8	5	2	0	3	0	8
Michael Cooper	—	4–7	0–2	0–0	1	1	2	4	1	0	3	5	8
Brad Holland	—	3–7	0–1	0–0	0	4	4	1	0	0	0	2	6
Spencer Haywood	—	2–6	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	1	1	0	3	4	4
Marty Byrnes	—	0–1	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	—	46–88	1–4	19–28	15	31	46	31	13	7	19	26	112

This season

Los Angeles Lakers 2, Houston Rockets 0 in NBA 1979-80.

5 Dec 1979Los Angeles Lakers 116–114 Houston Rockets
24 Feb 1980100–112 this game

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 31–31
Los Angeles Lakers: 45–18

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Lakers 179, Houston Rockets 106.

5 Dec 1979Los Angeles Lakers 116–114 Houston Rockets
12 Oct 1980Houston Rockets 103–114 Los Angeles Lakers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.