NBA 1987-88Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets92–98Los Angeles Clippers

Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Clippers

Date: Thursday 17 December 1987
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1987-88Regular season
Meeting: 78th meetingof 236 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Sleepy Floyd	30:00	2–12	0–0	2–3	0	2	2	6	1	3	2	4	6
Joe Barry Carroll	14:00	1–4	0–0	2–2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	4
Hakeem Olajuwon	—	8–20	0–0	6–6	6	8	14	0	5	5	5	6	22
Rodney McCray	—	8–13	0–0	1–3	6	7	13	1	2	0	1	0	17
Purvis Short	—	5–10	0–0	6–6	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	16
Jim Petersen	—	6–11	0–0	1–1	0	5	5	5	2	1	3	2	13
Allen Leavell	—	5–11	0–1	2–4	0	1	1	6	2	0	5	4	12
World B. Free	—	1–4	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
Buck Johnson	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Cedric Maxwell	—	0–1	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Team totals	44:00	36–86	0–1	20–25	14	25	39	20	13	10	18	23	92

Los Angeles Clippers

Los Angeles Clippers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Reggie Williams	10:00	3–5	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	6
Mike Woodson	—	11–20	0–1	6–9	1	0	1	1	1	1	3	1	28
Larry Drew	—	4–12	0–0	6–7	1	2	3	7	1	0	2	3	14
Benoit Benjamin	—	4–9	0–0	5–8	2	9	11	4	1	6	1	4	13
Michael Cage	—	6–13	0–0	1–3	6	17	23	1	1	3	3	3	13
Quintin Dailey	—	5–10	0–0	3–6	1	2	3	0	2	0	5	3	13
Earl Cureton	—	3–4	0–0	0–0	2	2	4	1	1	0	2	1	6
Darnell Valentine	—	1–2	0–0	1–3	0	1	1	4	0	1	2	1	3
Ken Norman	—	1–3	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	1	2	0	2	3	2
Team totals	10:00	38–78	0–1	22–36	14	36	50	20	9	11	22	19	98

This season

Los Angeles Clippers 2, Houston Rockets 3 in NBA 1987-88.

17 Dec 198792–98 this game
26 Jan 1988Los Angeles Clippers 104–124 Houston Rockets
12 Feb 1988Houston Rockets 112–105 Los Angeles Clippers
15 Mar 1988Los Angeles Clippers 110–116 Houston Rockets
10 Apr 1988Houston Rockets 105–122 Los Angeles Clippers

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 11–9
Los Angeles Clippers: 7–12

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Los Angeles Clippers 99, Houston Rockets 137.

7 Apr 1987Houston Rockets 102–84 Los Angeles Clippers
26 Jan 1988Los Angeles Clippers 104–124 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.