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NBA 1979-80Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets96–109Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date
Arena
Not recorded
Season
NBA 1979-80Regular season
Meeting
55th meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Billy Paultz26:002–70–02–4538300016
Moses Malone—8–190–03–366121024519
Robert Reid—8–160–03–347114011219
Mike Dunleavy—8–180–01–32244101417
Rudy Tomjanovich—6–160–12–33252002114
Major Jones—3–50–04–83581201110
Allen Leavell—3–70–00–0000201446
Tom Henderson—2–60–01–2000200115
Team totals26:0040–940–116–262325481934141996

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Mike Mitchell—9–180–06–7211132204324
Randy Smith—9–220–02–20227100020
Dave Robisch—8–110–03–30661022319
Bill Willoughby—5–80–02–24260001312
Willie Smith—6–70–00–12136401312
Kenny Carr—3–80–01–2448001217
Foots Walker—2–60–02–2101710036
Don Ford—2–50–01–1213000035
Austin Carr—1–10–00–0011000102
John Lambert—1–50–00–0134211042
Team totals—46–910–017–2016314725941123109

This season

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

Records going in

Houston Rockets
37–39
Cleveland Cavaliers
33–43

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

Every meeting

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.