NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets81–78Cleveland Cavaliers

Houston Rockets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Wednesday 8 January 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 88th meetingof 144 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Mario Elie	8–9	3–4	7–7	1	3	4	2	1	0	3	1	26	+1
Hakeem Olajuwon	7–15	0–0	8–10	3	5	8	2	1	1	8	4	22	+5
Clyde Drexler	2–10	1–7	4–7	2	7	9	6	4	0	4	2	9	+9
Matt Maloney	3–8	3–8	0–0	1	5	6	5	1	0	0	3	9	+7
Charles Barkley	2–12	1–5	3–4	6	6	12	2	2	0	3	4	8	+6
Sam Mack	1–3	0–2	1–1	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	3	-1
Brent Price	1–2	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0
Kevin Willis	0–3	0–0	2–2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	-5
Randy Livingston	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	3	3	1	1	0	2	3	0	-7
Team totals	24–63	8–27	25–31	13	30	43	20	13	2	22	21	81	—

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terrell Brandon	9–21	3–6	5–5	0	2	2	7	5	0	5	0	26	-3
Bobby Phills	9–18	1–4	4–5	2	2	4	3	2	0	4	1	23	-2
Bob Sura	3–6	0–1	2–4	0	1	1	4	2	0	2	5	8	-1
Danny Ferry	3–6	1–2	1–2	0	4	4	3	0	1	0	5	8	-4
Chris Mills	1–8	0–2	5–6	2	12	14	2	3	1	2	3	7	-4
Donny Marshall	2–5	2–5	0–0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	6	-2
Antonio Lang	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mark West	0–2	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	0	2	1	1	4	0	+1
Vitaly Potapenko	0–1	0–0	0–0	3	1	4	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
Team totals	27–67	7–20	17–22	9	23	32	19	16	3	17	22	78	—

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 0, Houston Rockets 2 in NBA 1996-97.

8 Jan 199781–78 this game
27 Mar 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 89–107 Houston Rockets

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 25–8
Cleveland Cavaliers: 21–11

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 51, Houston Rockets 93.

21 Mar 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 98–85 Houston Rockets
27 Mar 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 89–107 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.