NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final/OT

Cleveland Cavaliers87–88Denver Nuggets

Cleveland Cavaliers at Denver Nuggets

Date: Thursday 16 January 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 47th meetingof 102 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Vitaly Potapenko	—	7–9	0–0	2–2	5	3	8	3	1	1	0	2	16	+12
Terrell Brandon	—	7–19	1–1	0–0	1	5	6	2	2	1	2	0	15	-9
Chris Mills	—	6–9	0–0	1–2	0	4	4	2	2	0	1	2	13	-1
Antonio Lang	—	4–9	0–1	2–2	1	1	2	1	3	0	0	2	10	+10
Bob Sura	—	4–12	1–2	1–3	0	2	2	4	3	0	1	1	10	+11
Bobby Phills	—	4–6	0–0	1–2	1	2	3	7	2	2	4	4	9	-6
Danny Ferry	—	2–8	0–0	2–2	2	7	9	1	2	0	2	3	6	-14
Mark West	—	3–4	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	6	-11
Donny Marshall	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	+3
Team totals	—	38–78	2–5	9–13	10	25	35	20	15	6	12	18	87	—

Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Ricky Pierce	13:51	3–6	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	6	+4
LaPhonso Ellis	—	12–24	2–8	1–1	1	4	5	1	0	0	2	3	27	+10
Bryant Stith	—	7–15	3–5	3–4	2	3	5	2	1	1	2	0	20	-1
Darvin Ham	—	5–8	0–0	0–0	2	3	5	1	1	0	1	5	10	+10
Brooks Thompson	—	3–4	2–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	-1
Mark Jackson	—	3–7	1–2	0–0	1	5	6	13	2	1	6	1	7	+8
Ervin Johnson	—	2–5	0–0	0–0	2	6	8	0	0	4	2	3	4	0
Tom Hammonds	—	2–4	0–0	0–0	3	6	9	2	0	1	1	2	4	-5
Dale Ellis	—	1–6	0–2	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	-14
Elmer Bennett	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	-6
Team totals	13:51	38–79	8–19	4–5	11	29	40	20	5	7	17	16	88	—

This season

Denver Nuggets 1, Cleveland Cavaliers 1 in NBA 1996-97.

10 Nov 1996Denver Nuggets 79–108 Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Jan 199787–88 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 21–14
Denver Nuggets: 9–28

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Denver Nuggets 54, Cleveland Cavaliers 48.

10 Nov 1996Denver Nuggets 79–108 Cleveland Cavaliers
10 Dec 1997Denver Nuggets 83–102 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.