NBA 1981-82Regular season

Final

Denver Nuggets109–137Phoenix Suns

Denver Nuggets at Phoenix Suns

Date: Thursday 3 December 1981
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1981-82Regular season
Meeting: 25th meetingof 218 played

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Dan Issel	6–14	0–0	12–15	1	4	5	2	0	1	3	3	24
Alex English	8–20	0–0	0–0	1	5	6	8	2	0	5	3	16
Kiki Vandeweghe	5–9	0–0	6–6	1	2	3	3	2	0	2	2	16
Billy McKinney	6–10	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	3	5	0	4	2	12
T.R. Dunn	6–11	0–0	0–0	4	3	7	4	2	0	3	5	12
Cedrick Hordges	5–5	0–0	0–4	1	4	5	1	0	0	5	4	10
Glen Gondrezick	5–10	0–0	0–0	1	5	6	2	1	0	0	2	10
John Roche	3–3	0–0	1–1	0	0	0	6	0	0	1	1	7
James Ray	1–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
David Burns	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Kenny Higgs	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Team totals	45–84	0–0	19–26	9	24	33	30	12	1	25	24	109

Phoenix Suns

Phoenix Suns box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Larry Nance	12–16	0–0	5–6	2	4	6	4	0	1	4	4	29
Truck Robinson	11–14	0–0	5–6	2	11	13	3	0	0	3	2	27
Dudley Bradley	9–11	0–0	2–2	0	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	20
Dennis Johnson	8–13	0–0	0–0	0	4	4	11	0	1	1	1	16
Kyle Macy	5–8	1–2	2–2	1	2	3	5	3	0	1	3	13
Alvin Scott	4–8	0–0	1–2	3	1	4	1	2	1	4	2	9
Alvan Adams	4–9	0–0	0–1	0	5	5	3	0	1	3	5	8
John McCullough	2–2	0–0	3–3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Joel Kramer	2–7	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	2	2	0	1	2	4
Craig Dykema	1–3	0–1	0–0	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	2
Rich Kelley	1–2	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	9	1	1	3	4	2
Jeff Cook	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	0	0
Team totals	59–94	1–3	18–22	10	34	44	43	11	5	25	23	137

This season

Phoenix Suns 5, Denver Nuggets 3 in NBA 1981-82.

10 Nov 1981Phoenix Suns 109–106 Denver Nuggets
3 Dec 1981109–137 this game
26 Feb 1982Denver Nuggets 122–131 Phoenix Suns
17 Mar 1982Denver Nuggets 135–133 Phoenix Suns
27 Mar 1982Phoenix Suns 134–140 Denver Nuggets
20 Apr 1982Phoenix Suns 113–129 Denver Nuggets
23 Apr 1982Denver Nuggets 110–126 Phoenix Suns
24 Apr 1982Phoenix Suns 124–119 Denver Nuggets

Records going in

Denver Nuggets: 8–6
Phoenix Suns: 9–5

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Phoenix Suns 117, Denver Nuggets 101.

10 Nov 1981Phoenix Suns 109–106 Denver Nuggets
26 Feb 1982Denver Nuggets 122–131 Phoenix Suns

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.