NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers95–101Detroit Pistons

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons

Date: Friday 12 December 1980
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting: 45th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Roger Phegley	9–13	0–0	2–3	4	3	7	0	0	0	2	3	20
Mike Mitchell	9–25	0–0	1–1	3	6	9	1	1	0	5	3	19
Bill Laimbeer	8–15	0–0	1–1	7	6	13	4	3	1	1	4	17
Richard Washington	6–13	0–0	4–4	2	9	11	1	1	3	3	4	16
Randy Smith	6–21	0–0	0–0	3	3	6	9	0	0	3	1	12
Mike Bratz	3–12	1–2	2–2	2	0	2	4	0	0	5	0	9
Don Ford	1–2	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	2
Chad Kinch	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	42–102	1–2	10–11	21	30	51	21	5	4	19	17	95

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Keith Herron	9–22	0–1	3–3	4	2	6	2	0	1	6	3	21
Kent Benson	8–13	0–0	1–2	0	4	4	3	0	3	1	5	17
Phil Hubbard	6–15	0–0	4–6	2	5	7	0	1	0	2	6	16
Paul Mokeski	6–8	0–0	1–1	3	3	6	2	1	0	1	3	13
Larry Wright	6–12	0–1	0–0	0	5	5	5	2	0	0	2	12
Ron Lee	3–5	0–0	2–2	1	5	6	9	3	2	1	1	8
Terry Tyler	3–9	0–0	2–4	2	1	3	0	1	4	2	1	8
Larry Drew	2–7	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	2	2	0	0	0	4
Wayne Robinson	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	2
Team totals	44–94	0–2	13–18	13	30	43	24	11	10	13	22	101

This season

Detroit Pistons 3, Cleveland Cavaliers 3 in NBA 1980-81.

14 Oct 1980Detroit Pistons 91–99 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Dec 1980Detroit Pistons 100–101 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Dec 198095–101 this game
24 Jan 1981Cleveland Cavaliers 94–117 Detroit Pistons
17 Feb 1981Detroit Pistons 108–109 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Feb 1981Cleveland Cavaliers 109–118 Detroit Pistons

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 10–22
Detroit Pistons: 8–21

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Detroit Pistons 144, Cleveland Cavaliers 129.

6 Dec 1980Detroit Pistons 100–101 Cleveland Cavaliers
24 Jan 1981Cleveland Cavaliers 94–117 Detroit Pistons

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.