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NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Denver Nuggets134–132Houston Rockets

Denver Nuggets at Houston Rockets

Date
Arena
Not recorded
Season
NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting
15th meetingof 217 played

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Billy McKinney26:004–110–02–20225103210
David Thompson—11–160–09–101232002331
Dan Issel—9–120–09–939122111527
Alex English—9–190–06–85273424124
Kiki Vandeweghe—8–170–04–41673001320
Kenny Higgs—4–90–00–0044510158
Glen Gondrezick—3–30–00–0213000016
Ronnie Valentine—2–40–02–2112010116
Dave Robisch—0–10–02–2134201112
Cedrick Hordges—0–20–00–0011000100
T.R. Dunn—0–10–00–0000000000
Team totals26:0050–950–034–3714314522841522134

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Calvin Murphy—16–270–010–100224203442
Moses Malone—12–200–09–10511161002233
Allen Leavell—7–100–13–31234000317
Robert Reid—3–130–02–2235922248
Rudy Tomjanovich—3–120–12–2224210138
Bill Willoughby—3–60–00–0235300116
Billy Paultz—3–50–00–0224200016
Calvin Garrett—3–50–00–0156200246
Major Jones—2–60–02–2303010256
Team totals—52–1040–228–2918304827621327132

This season

Houston Rockets 4, Denver Nuggets 2 in NBA 1980-81.

Records going in

Denver Nuggets
13–26
Houston Rockets
18–22

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 112, Denver Nuggets 105.

Every meeting

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.