- Date
- Arena
- Not recorded
- Season
- NBA 1987-88Regular season
- Meeting
- 71st meetingof 144 played
Cleveland Cavaliers
| Player | MIN | FG | 3P | FT | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Daugherty | — | 7–10 | 0–0 | 4–6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 18 |
| Mark Price | — | 6–12 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| Phil Hubbard | — | 5–9 | 0–0 | 6–9 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| Tyrone Corbin | — | 6–8 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Hot Rod Williams | — | 2–14 | 0–0 | 4–4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Kevin Johnson | — | 2–6 | 0–0 | 4–4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Ron Harper | — | 3–9 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Craig Ehlo | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mark West | — | 3–5 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Chris Dudley | — | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Dell Curry | — | 2–10 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Team totals | — | 39–87 | 3–5 | 28–37 | 18 | 33 | 51 | 20 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 21 | 109 |
Houston Rockets
| Player | MIN | FG | 3P | FT | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sleepy Floyd | 35:00 | 5–17 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| Joe Barry Carroll | 21:00 | 2–6 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Hakeem Olajuwon | — | 9–24 | 0–0 | 5–10 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 23 |
| Jim Petersen | — | 4–5 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| Purvis Short | — | 4–8 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Allen Leavell | — | 3–11 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Buck Johnson | — | 3–5 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Robert Reid | — | 2–7 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Rodney McCray | — | 2–6 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Cedric Maxwell | — | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| World B. Free | — | 0–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Team totals | 56:00 | 35–95 | 1–5 | 14–20 | 18 | 25 | 43 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 85 |
This season
Houston Rockets 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1987-88.
- Houston Rockets 105–97 Cleveland Cavaliers
- 109–85 this game
Records going in
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- 19–21
- Houston Rockets
- 22–16
Regular season, before this game.
Meetings
All-time: Houston Rockets 93, Cleveland Cavaliers 51.
Every meetingData: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.