NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers109–118Detroit Pistons

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons

Date: Friday 27 February 1981
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting: 48th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Richard Washington	11–16	0–0	2–2	5	5	10	1	1	0	3	5	24
Roger Phegley	9–19	0–0	5–5	0	1	1	2	2	1	1	4	23
Mike Bratz	7–16	3–6	0–0	2	0	2	8	1	0	3	4	17
Mike Mitchell	7–24	0–0	3–6	4	5	9	1	3	2	3	4	17
Geoff Huston	6–10	0–0	2–3	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	1	14
Bill Laimbeer	2–7	0–0	4–5	6	9	15	1	1	0	2	4	8
Kenny Carr	1–11	0–0	2–2	5	4	9	0	1	0	5	5	4
Randy Smith	1–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Team totals	44–105	3–6	18–23	22	24	46	18	9	3	19	27	109

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Terry Tyler	13–18	0–0	5–9	8	6	14	3	2	4	3	1	31
John Long	10–19	0–0	3–3	2	0	2	0	2	0	4	4	23
Phil Hubbard	8–16	0–0	2–10	3	18	21	3	2	1	6	4	18
Keith Herron	7–13	0–0	2–2	2	1	3	2	1	1	1	4	16
Paul Mokeski	4–5	0–0	6–8	0	4	4	4	1	2	4	6	14
Larry Drew	1–2	0–0	3–4	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	2	5
Wayne Robinson	2–5	0–0	1–2	1	3	4	0	0	0	2	4	5
Larry Wright	2–2	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	5	0	0	2	1	4
Ron Lee	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	3	3	6	0	0	2	2	2
Team totals	48–83	0–0	22–38	16	37	53	27	9	8	26	28	118

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 1980Cleveland Cavaliers 95–101 Detroit Pistons
24 Jan 1981Cleveland Cavaliers 94–117 Detroit Pistons
17 Feb 1981Detroit Pistons 108–109 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Feb 1981109–118 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 25–40
Detroit Pistons: 15–52

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

17 Feb 1981Detroit Pistons 108–109 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Nov 1981Cleveland Cavaliers 99–130 Detroit Pistons

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.