- Date
- Arena
- Not recorded
- Season
- NBA 1987-88Regular season
- Meeting
- 105th meetingof 178 played
Houston Rockets
| Player | MIN | FG | 3P | FT | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Barry Carroll | 37:00 | 7–15 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| Sleepy Floyd | 25:00 | 4–8 | 0–2 | 5–5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Buck Johnson | — | 9–10 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| Rodney McCray | — | 7–15 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| Jim Petersen | — | 5–8 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| Robert Reid | — | 6–10 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| Allen Leavell | — | 3–8 | 0–2 | 3–4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Purvis Short | — | 2–7 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Cedric Maxwell | — | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| World B. Free | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Lester Conner | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team totals | 62:00 | 46–85 | 0–6 | 18–25 | 12 | 28 | 40 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 110 |
Boston Celtics
| Player | MIN | FG | 3P | FT | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Bird | — | 12–23 | 0–3 | 11–11 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 35 |
| Danny Ainge | — | 9–14 | 4–5 | 0–0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22 |
| Fred Roberts | — | 6–10 | 0–0 | 4–5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| Robert Parish | — | 6–12 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| Dennis Johnson | — | 5–12 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Kevin McHale | — | 2–14 | 0–0 | 6–7 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Brad Lohaus | — | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Jim Paxson | — | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Artis Gilmore | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mark Acres | — | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Dirk Minniefield | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team totals | — | 46–98 | 4–8 | 21–25 | 17 | 26 | 43 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 22 | 117 |
This season
Boston Celtics 1, Houston Rockets 1 in NBA 1987-88.
- Boston Celtics 120–129 Houston Rockets
- 110–117 this game
Records going in
- Houston Rockets
- 40–27
- Boston Celtics
- 49–21
Regular season, before this game.
Meetings
All-time: Boston Celtics 115, Houston Rockets 63.
Every meetingData: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.