NBA 1980-81Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers127–137Denver Nuggets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Denver Nuggets

Date: Sunday 1 March 1981
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1980-81Regular season
Meeting: 15th meetingof 102 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Mike Mitchell	—	14–23	0–0	8–13	3	6	9	2	2	1	2	2	36
Kenny Carr	—	7–14	0–0	3–3	5	11	16	4	2	1	1	5	17
Bill Laimbeer	—	8–13	0–0	0–0	4	8	12	8	0	0	0	4	16
Roger Phegley	—	6–13	0–0	2–2	0	2	2	3	1	0	3	6	14
Richard Washington	—	6–11	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	2	1	1	2	6	12
Geoff Huston	—	4–6	0–0	3–3	2	0	2	5	0	0	5	4	11
Mike Bratz	—	4–16	2–5	0–0	2	0	2	5	0	0	3	3	10
Randy Smith	—	3–6	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	3	0	0	0	2	6
Mack Calvin	—	1–1	0–0	3–4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	5
Kim Hughes	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	—	53–103	2–5	19–25	17	32	49	33	7	3	16	33	127

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Billy McKinney	19:00	1–2	0–0	9–11	0	3	3	3	1	0	2	3	11
David Thompson	—	18–28	0–0	8–10	4	1	5	2	1	1	3	3	44
Alex English	—	14–24	0–0	2–2	5	3	8	4	1	2	5	3	30
Dan Issel	—	8–20	0–0	6–7	2	8	10	2	0	1	1	0	22
Cedrick Hordges	—	3–5	0–0	3–4	1	9	10	2	0	0	0	2	9
Dave Robisch	—	2–8	0–0	1–1	3	2	5	4	0	2	0	2	5
Kiki Vandeweghe	—	2–7	0–0	1–3	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	5
Ronnie Valentine	—	2–2	0–0	1–3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5
Glen Gondrezick	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	2
Kenny Higgs	—	1–5	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	11	2	0	0	4	2
T.R. Dunn	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	2	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	2
Team totals	19:00	53–104	0–0	31–41	19	34	53	30	6	6	13	20	137

This season

Denver Nuggets 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1980-81.

18 Dec 1980Denver Nuggets 122–130 Cleveland Cavaliers
1 Mar 1981127–137 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 25–41
Denver Nuggets: 27–38

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 54, Cleveland Cavaliers 48.

18 Dec 1980Denver Nuggets 122–130 Cleveland Cavaliers
12 Dec 1981Denver Nuggets 120–115 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.