NBA 1987-88Regular season

Final

Phoenix Suns99–109Houston Rockets

Phoenix Suns at Houston Rockets

Date: Tuesday 2 February 1988
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1987-88Regular season
Meeting: 94th meetingof 244 played

Phoenix Suns

Phoenix Suns box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Armen Gilliam	—	5–16	0–0	8–8	4	5	9	1	1	1	2	3	18
Jeff Hornacek	—	6–9	0–0	4–5	0	2	2	2	2	0	0	5	16
Walter Davis	—	6–17	2–4	2–2	0	3	3	3	0	0	1	1	16
Eddie Johnson	—	6–17	1–4	0–0	0	3	3	0	2	1	2	3	13
Larry Nance	—	4–14	0–1	5–9	5	9	14	3	2	1	4	4	13
James Edwards	—	5–10	0–0	1–4	1	4	5	2	0	0	2	5	11
Jay Humphries	—	3–6	0–0	0–0	1	6	7	12	0	0	1	5	6
Bernard Thompson	—	1–1	0–0	2–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
James Bailey	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	4	2
Alvan Adams	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	—	37–94	3–9	22–30	14	32	46	23	8	3	12	30	99

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Sleepy Floyd	35:00	3–13	0–0	4–4	3	2	5	7	0	0	4	1	10
Joe Barry Carroll	33:00	9–19	0–1	3–3	6	6	12	3	0	5	5	4	21
Hakeem Olajuwon	—	10–19	0–0	6–8	5	10	15	0	5	3	0	5	26
Purvis Short	—	8–14	0–0	5–7	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	4	21
Rodney McCray	—	7–12	0–0	2–2	2	8	10	1	0	0	2	1	16
Allen Leavell	—	4–11	0–1	1–1	2	3	5	3	1	0	0	2	9
Jim Petersen	—	1–6	0–0	2–5	4	7	11	2	1	1	2	3	4
Buck Johnson	—	1–3	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	2
Robert Reid	—	0–4	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
Team totals	68:00	43–101	0–2	23–30	24	41	65	16	7	9	16	22	109

This season

Houston Rockets 4, Phoenix Suns 1 in NBA 1987-88.

25 Nov 1987Houston Rockets 109–103 Phoenix Suns
9 Jan 1988Phoenix Suns 98–104 Houston Rockets
13 Jan 1988Houston Rockets 106–117 Phoenix Suns
2 Feb 198899–109 this game
24 Apr 1988Phoenix Suns 119–127 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Phoenix Suns: 13–27
Houston Rockets: 23–17

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 123, Phoenix Suns 121.

13 Jan 1988Houston Rockets 106–117 Phoenix Suns
24 Apr 1988Phoenix Suns 119–127 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.