NBA 1987-88Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets125–132Denver Nuggets

Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets

Date: Friday 15 April 1988
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1987-88Regular season
Meeting: 66th meetingof 217 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Joe Barry Carroll	24:00	6–12	0–0	4–6	2	5	7	2	0	1	1	5	16
Sleepy Floyd	24:00	5–8	0–0	3–3	0	2	2	4	1	0	4	2	13
Hakeem Olajuwon	—	12–21	0–0	3–5	3	6	9	3	1	0	5	5	27
Cedric Maxwell	—	5–5	0–0	7–8	1	1	2	2	0	0	5	2	17
Robert Reid	—	5–9	1–1	2–2	0	3	3	2	2	0	1	4	13
Purvis Short	—	4–7	0–0	3–4	2	3	5	1	0	0	2	4	11
Allen Leavell	—	5–8	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	7	3	0	0	1	10
Rodney McCray	—	4–5	0–0	2–2	2	3	5	6	0	0	3	1	10
Buck Johnson	—	3–6	0–1	0–0	1	5	6	2	1	0	3	3	6
Jim Petersen	—	1–3	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	1	0	1	3	1	2
Team totals	48:00	50–84	1–2	24–30	12	31	43	30	8	2	27	28	125

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Danny Schayes	—	7–11	0–0	18–18	5	6	11	0	1	0	3	3	32
Fat Lever	—	10–21	0–0	8–9	2	7	9	9	3	0	1	3	28
Alex English	—	12–24	0–0	2–2	3	4	7	8	0	0	2	3	26
Michael Adams	—	10–19	5–11	1–1	1	3	4	1	2	0	0	3	26
Blair Rasmussen	—	3–11	0–0	2–2	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	4	8
Jay Vincent	—	4–10	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
Bill Hanzlik	—	0–4	0–0	2–2	1	1	2	4	3	0	3	3	2
Wayne Cooper	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
T.R. Dunn	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	0
Team totals	—	47–101	5–11	33–34	15	22	37	22	10	0	12	24	132

This season

Denver Nuggets 4, Houston Rockets 2 in NBA 1987-88.

1 Dec 1987Denver Nuggets 101–106 Houston Rockets
16 Dec 1987Houston Rockets 113–132 Denver Nuggets
19 Dec 1987Denver Nuggets 121–117 Houston Rockets
8 Mar 1988Houston Rockets 113–103 Denver Nuggets
5 Apr 1988Denver Nuggets 110–97 Houston Rockets
15 Apr 1988125–132 this game

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 44–32
Denver Nuggets: 50–27

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 105, Houston Rockets 112.

5 Apr 1988Denver Nuggets 110–97 Houston Rockets
4 Nov 1988Houston Rockets 117–120 Denver Nuggets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.