NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers81–93Detroit Pistons

Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons

Date: Friday 6 December 1996
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 129th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terrell Brandon	6–17	0–4	5–5	0	7	7	8	0	0	1	2	17	0
Chris Mills	7–14	2–4	0–0	1	8	9	2	1	0	2	2	16	-13
Antonio Lang	7–10	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	14	-7
Tyrone Hill	3–10	0–0	8–9	4	9	13	3	0	2	2	4	14	-7
Bob Sura	3–7	1–1	0–0	1	1	2	6	0	0	3	3	7	-17
Danny Ferry	2–6	1–2	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	5	-5
Mark West	2–4	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	0	2	5	4	-5
Vitaly Potapenko	1–2	0–0	2–2	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	4	4	-6
Team totals	31–70	4–11	15–16	10	30	40	20	1	2	12	23	81	—

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terry Mills	7–9	6–6	3–3	0	5	5	9	1	1	1	3	23	+20
Otis Thorpe	9–16	0–0	1–1	2	4	6	2	0	4	1	5	19	+5
Grant Hill	5–13	0–0	4–9	1	4	5	8	2	2	3	3	14	+10
Michael Curry	4–6	1–2	3–4	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	12	+7
Joe Dumars	4–8	2–3	1–2	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	11	+14
Lindsey Hunter	2–7	0–2	2–4	0	2	2	0	1	2	0	4	6	+8
Grant Long	1–2	1–1	1–4	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	-7
Rick Mahorn	1–1	0–0	2–2	0	5	5	1	0	0	0	3	4	+7
Litterial Green	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-4
Team totals	33–62	10–14	17–29	4	27	31	22	5	9	6	21	93	—

This season

Detroit Pistons 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 1996-97.

16 Nov 1996Detroit Pistons 102–98 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Dec 199681–93 this game
17 Mar 1997Detroit Pistons 82–85 Cleveland Cavaliers
18 Apr 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 82–75 Detroit Pistons

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 11–5
Detroit Pistons: 13–3

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Detroit Pistons 144, Cleveland Cavaliers 129.

16 Nov 1996Detroit Pistons 102–98 Cleveland Cavaliers
17 Mar 1997Detroit Pistons 82–85 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.