NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Phoenix Suns106–128Los Angeles Lakers

Phoenix Suns at Los Angeles Lakers

Date: Sunday 16 March 1980
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting: 76th meetingof 345 played

Phoenix Suns

Phoenix Suns box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Rich Kelley	14:00	2–2	0–0	4–6	3	0	3	1	2	0	3	4	8
Truck Robinson	—	9–15	0–0	8–14	3	7	10	0	1	1	1	3	26
Paul Westphal	—	9–17	0–1	4–6	0	4	4	8	2	0	6	1	22
Walter Davis	—	6–16	0–0	2–2	0	2	2	3	1	0	2	1	14
Alvan Adams	—	5–14	0–0	0–0	1	7	8	4	2	0	1	4	10
Don Buse	—	4–9	2–2	0–0	3	1	4	5	0	0	1	1	10
Mike Bratz	—	4–11	0–3	2–2	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	10
Alvin Scott	—	1–5	0–0	0–0	0	3	3	2	0	0	4	3	2
Jeff Cook	—	0–0	0–0	2–2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
Johnny High	—	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	3	2	0	1	4	2
Gar Heard	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	2	2	4	0	1	0	0	1	0
Team totals	14:00	41–95	2–6	22–32	12	28	40	30	13	1	20	24	106

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	—	11–17	0–0	8–9	1	10	11	3	2	1	3	3	30
Jamaal Wilkes	—	10–20	0–0	5–5	1	4	5	2	2	0	4	2	25
Magic Johnson	—	8–13	0–0	5–6	2	11	13	13	3	2	7	2	21
Norm Nixon	—	8–13	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	9	1	1	4	3	16
Spencer Haywood	—	3–6	0–0	4–4	1	3	4	3	0	0	1	4	10
Mark Landsberger	—	4–5	0–0	0–2	4	2	6	1	2	0	1	0	8
Michael Cooper	—	4–6	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	2	2	0	1	4	8
Jim Chones	—	2–7	0–0	2–2	3	4	7	2	2	1	1	4	6
Brad Holland	—	2–4	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	4
Butch Lee	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Marty Byrnes	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	—	52–93	0–0	24–28	14	37	51	37	16	5	22	23	128

This season

Los Angeles Lakers 7, Phoenix Suns 4 in NBA 1979-80.

2 Nov 1979Phoenix Suns 110–112 Los Angeles Lakers
23 Nov 1979Los Angeles Lakers 112–126 Phoenix Suns
30 Dec 1979Phoenix Suns 105–113 Los Angeles Lakers
2 Mar 1980Los Angeles Lakers 115–123 Phoenix Suns
16 Mar 1980106–128 this game
19 Mar 1980Los Angeles Lakers 108–112 Phoenix Suns
8 Apr 1980Phoenix Suns 110–119 Los Angeles Lakers
9 Apr 1980Phoenix Suns 128–131 Los Angeles Lakers
11 Apr 1980Los Angeles Lakers 108–105 Phoenix Suns
13 Apr 1980Los Angeles Lakers 101–127 Phoenix Suns
15 Apr 1980Phoenix Suns 101–126 Los Angeles Lakers

Records going in

Phoenix Suns: 48–25
Los Angeles Lakers: 53–21

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Lakers 195, Phoenix Suns 150.

2 Mar 1980Los Angeles Lakers 115–123 Phoenix Suns
19 Mar 1980Los Angeles Lakers 108–112 Phoenix Suns

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.