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NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets98–97Denver Nuggets

Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets

Date
Arena
Not recorded
Season
NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting
16th meetingof 217 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Moses Malone—14–180–09–11811192217437
Robert Reid—6–140–02–22796303414
Calvin Murphy—6–100–00–00222301112
Billy Paultz—4–80–03–51672052111
Allen Leavell—5–150–00–00226304210
Bill Willoughby—2–20–00–0011100024
Calvin Garrett—2–30–00–0033500424
Tom Henderson—2–90–00–0011210014
Major Jones—1–30–00–0011020012
Mike Dunleavy—0–10–00–2101110210
Team totals—42–830–014–2012344627156231998

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS
Billy McKinney21:002–30–02–2000000316
David Thompson—14–190–05–91452002333
Alex English—8–250–03–34264303419
Kiki Vandeweghe—8–150–01–24592016217
Dan Issel—4–160–06–73583012514
Dave Robisch—1–60–02–2268100014
Cedrick Hordges—1–50–00–0123000002
Glen Gondrezick—1–30–00–0213100022
Kenny Higgs—0–10–00–0055800330
T.R. Dunn—0–00–00–0011013010
Team totals21:0039–930–019–251731482145192297

This season

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

Records going in

Houston Rockets
20–27
Denver Nuggets
17–29

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

Every meeting

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.