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NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final/2OT

Los Angeles Lakers126–115Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Lakers at Houston Rockets

Date
Arena
Not recorded
Season
NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting
151st meetingof 285 played

Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS+/−
Shaquille O'Neal—15–240–04–869152125634+4
Nick Van Exel—10–274–125–502214200029+19
Cedric Ceballos—9–202–42–346101000422+11
Eddie Jones—7–123–61–12132112618+8
Elden Campbell—2–90–07–855100122311+7
Byron Scott—1–31–34–4055101217+8
Travis Knight—1–10–01–2101000013+6
Kobe Bryant—1–20–10–0011000202-4
Derek Fisher—0–10–10–0000000100-8
Sean Rooks—0–10–00–0011000060+4
Team totals—46–10010–2724–3118304820561427126—

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
PlayerMINFG3PFTORBDRBTRBASTSTLBLKTOVPFPTS+/−
Charles Jones7:140–00–00–0011001000-1
Charles Barkley—10–183–610–1397165037333-11
Hakeem Olajuwon—12–220–07–91672141431+1
Emanual Davis—7–105–70–21458100319+1
Matt Bullard—4–81–50–0134000109-1
Kevin Willis—3–90–00–0426001146-11
Matt Maloney—2–91–60–0000310015-12
Tracy Moore—2–70–51–1000500125+12
Clyde Drexler—1–90–32–2235531114-17
Mario Elie—1–51–40–0022400423-18
Charles Jones—0–00–00–0011001000-1
Sam Mack—0–10–10–0000000100+2
Team totals7:1442–9811–3720–27182947326111720115—

This season

Houston Rockets 3, Los Angeles Lakers 1 in NBA 1996-97.

Records going in

Los Angeles Lakers
4–2
Houston Rockets
6–0

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 106, Los Angeles Lakers 179.

Every meeting

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.