NBA 1988-89Regular season

Final

Boston Celtics115–131Dallas Mavericks

Boston Celtics at Dallas Mavericks

Date: Thursday 29 December 1988
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1988-89Regular season
Meeting: 17th meetingof 95 played

Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Kevin McHale	13–19	0–0	3–4	4	6	10	3	1	0	1	3	29
Reggie Lewis	7–13	0–0	4–8	1	2	3	4	1	1	0	5	18
Robert Parish	9–15	0–0	0–0	4	4	8	2	2	1	1	1	18
Danny Ainge	6–15	2–4	2–2	1	2	3	7	1	1	1	4	16
Dennis Johnson	4–6	0–1	1–2	0	1	1	4	0	1	3	2	9
Brian Shaw	2–6	0–1	4–6	4	2	6	8	2	0	5	1	8
Mark Acres	4–4	0–0	0–1	2	4	6	1	0	1	0	4	8
Jim Paxson	2–5	0–0	1–3	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	5
Brad Lohaus	2–8	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	4
Ramón Rivas	0–1	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Grandison	0–1	0–0	0–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	49–93	2–7	15–28	16	23	39	31	8	6	12	22	115

Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Rolando Blackman	14–19	0–0	4–4	0	1	1	5	1	1	0	0	32
Mark Aguirre	9–18	1–5	3–5	3	4	7	3	0	0	0	5	22
Sam Perkins	7–10	0–0	7–9	7	7	14	0	2	0	2	4	21
Roy Tarpley	9–13	0–0	1–4	1	10	11	3	0	2	1	3	19
Derek Harper	6–18	1–4	5–5	1	1	2	18	1	1	2	2	18
Brad Davis	4–6	1–2	0–0	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	4	9
James Donaldson	3–4	0–0	0–0	1	4	5	0	1	3	2	1	6
Detlef Schrempf	1–4	1–1	1–2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
Bill Wennington	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Team totals	53–92	4–12	21–29	14	28	42	35	7	7	8	21	131

This season

Dallas Mavericks 1, Boston Celtics 1 in NBA 1988-89.

29 Dec 1988115–131 this game
3 Mar 1989Dallas Mavericks 106–107 Boston Celtics

Records going in

Boston Celtics: 12–13
Dallas Mavericks: 16–9

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Dallas Mavericks 42, Boston Celtics 53.

3 Apr 1988Dallas Mavericks 101–110 Boston Celtics
3 Mar 1989Dallas Mavericks 106–107 Boston Celtics

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.