NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Detroit Pistons90–92Boston Celtics

Detroit Pistons at Boston Celtics

Date: Monday 19 January 1981
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting: 228th meetingof 446 played

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Keith Herron	10–16	0–0	0–0	2	2	4	4	2	0	5	2	20
Kent Benson	6–14	0–0	5–5	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	1	17
Terry Tyler	5–7	0–0	2–2	0	6	6	1	4	5	2	3	12
Wayne Robinson	5–8	0–0	2–4	3	8	11	1	0	0	2	6	12
Phil Hubbard	5–11	0–0	1–2	0	1	1	0	1	0	5	6	11
Ron Lee	3–8	0–0	5–6	0	2	2	7	2	0	1	3	11
Paul Mokeski	3–3	0–0	1–2	0	1	1	1	1	0	3	5	7
Larry Drew	0–2	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	4	1	0	1	1	0
Team totals	37–69	0–0	16–21	5	23	28	20	11	5	21	27	90

Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Cedric Maxwell	8–13	0–0	5–5	2	5	7	2	0	0	1	0	21
Larry Bird	7–17	0–1	5–6	1	11	12	4	1	3	6	3	19
Rick Robey	6–11	0–0	2–3	3	2	5	5	2	0	1	4	14
Chris Ford	5–10	1–2	0–0	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	2	11
Robert Parish	5–5	0–0	1–2	2	3	5	2	0	0	2	5	11
Tiny Archibald	4–7	0–0	2–2	1	0	1	9	0	0	8	2	10
Kevin McHale	2–5	0–0	0–2	2	2	4	1	0	2	0	2	4
Gerald Henderson	1–2	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	1	2
Eric Fernsten	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Duerod	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Wayne Kreklow	0–3	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Team totals	38–74	1–3	15–20	12	24	36	26	5	6	23	20	92

This season

Boston Celtics 4, Detroit Pistons 1 in NBA 1980-81.

29 Oct 1980Boston Celtics 103–85 Detroit Pistons
2 Dec 1980Boston Celtics 94–85 Detroit Pistons
19 Jan 198190–92 this game
21 Feb 1981Boston Celtics 130–119 Detroit Pistons
27 Mar 1981Detroit Pistons 115–90 Boston Celtics

Records going in

Detroit Pistons: 11–37
Boston Celtics: 38–9

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Boston Celtics 281, Detroit Pistons 165.

2 Dec 1980Boston Celtics 94–85 Detroit Pistons
21 Feb 1981Boston Celtics 130–119 Detroit Pistons

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.