NBA 1987-88Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets100–105Dallas Mavericks

Houston Rockets at Dallas Mavericks

Date: Saturday 26 December 1987
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1987-88Regular season
Meeting: 43rd meetingof 221 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Sleepy Floyd	37:00	7–15	1–2	2–2	0	2	2	4	0	0	3	1	17
Joe Barry Carroll	21:00	5–9	0–0	2–4	0	7	7	1	1	2	0	4	12
Hakeem Olajuwon	—	10–24	0–0	4–6	4	10	14	5	4	6	6	4	24
Purvis Short	—	7–11	0–0	2–3	2	2	4	1	0	0	2	5	16
Allen Leavell	—	7–14	0–2	0–0	0	1	1	7	1	1	1	2	14
Jim Petersen	—	2–6	0–0	1–1	2	3	5	1	0	0	1	4	5
Rodney McCray	—	1–5	0–0	3–4	6	1	7	3	1	0	3	6	5
Cedric Maxwell	—	0–0	0–0	3–4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Robert Reid	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
World B. Free	—	1–3	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
Buck Johnson	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	58:00	41–88	1–5	17–24	14	28	42	24	7	9	16	29	100

Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Derek Harper	—	11–20	2–4	3–5	0	3	3	8	0	0	3	1	27
Mark Aguirre	—	5–17	0–0	8–10	4	6	10	1	0	2	3	3	18
Rolando Blackman	—	5–16	0–0	5–5	2	1	3	5	1	1	3	2	15
Sam Perkins	—	5–12	0–0	2–2	3	9	12	0	1	0	2	5	12
Detlef Schrempf	—	3–3	0–0	3–3	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	3	9
Brad Davis	—	4–5	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	8
James Donaldson	—	2–6	0–0	3–4	7	5	12	1	0	3	3	2	7
Uwe Blab	—	1–1	0–0	4–4	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	6
Roy Tarpley	—	1–8	0–0	1–2	3	7	10	0	0	0	0	4	3
Team totals	—	37–88	2–4	29–35	20	33	53	18	3	6	18	22	105

This season

Dallas Mavericks 7, Houston Rockets 3 in NBA 1987-88.

26 Dec 1987100–105 this game
4 Jan 1988Dallas Mavericks 107–117 Houston Rockets
30 Jan 1988Houston Rockets 108–92 Dallas Mavericks
25 Feb 1988Dallas Mavericks 108–106 Houston Rockets
4 Mar 1988Houston Rockets 110–118 Dallas Mavericks
19 Apr 1988Dallas Mavericks 104–96 Houston Rockets
28 Apr 1988Houston Rockets 110–120 Dallas Mavericks
30 Apr 1988Houston Rockets 119–108 Dallas Mavericks
3 May 1988Dallas Mavericks 93–92 Houston Rockets
5 May 1988Dallas Mavericks 107–97 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 12–11
Dallas Mavericks: 15–8

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Dallas Mavericks 106, Houston Rockets 115.

17 Apr 1987Dallas Mavericks 99–121 Houston Rockets
4 Jan 1988Dallas Mavericks 107–117 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.