NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Chicago Bulls70–73Cleveland Cavaliers

Chicago Bulls at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Thursday 27 February 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 148th meetingof 273 played

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Toni Kukoč	23:09	1–6	0–2	2–4	1	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	4	-4
Michael Jordan	—	7–25	0–3	9–9	1	7	8	4	0	0	2	2	23	-10
Dennis Rodman	—	6–11	0–0	4–4	7	9	16	1	0	1	2	5	16	+8
Scottie Pippen	—	5–13	0–4	4–6	6	8	14	2	3	0	5	3	14	-2
Luc Longley	—	3–5	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	1	6	-11
Steve Kerr	—	1–4	1–3	0–1	0	2	2	1	2	0	1	1	3	+10
Jason Caffey	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	-1
Ron Harper	—	1–8	0–2	0–0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	2	2	-7
Randy Brown	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	+1
Team totals	23:09	25–76	1–14	19–24	17	31	48	12	6	3	11	15	70	—

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terrell Brandon	—	9–20	0–4	5–5	0	5	5	5	0	0	2	1	23	+1
Bobby Phills	—	5–14	3–4	0–0	1	6	7	3	3	0	1	2	13	+10
Vitaly Potapenko	—	5–7	0–0	2–2	3	2	5	0	1	1	5	3	12	-8
Danny Ferry	—	4–12	1–4	0–0	3	4	7	2	1	1	1	4	9	+7
Chris Mills	—	3–9	0–2	1–2	0	5	5	3	1	0	2	4	7	+5
Mark West	—	2–3	0–0	1–2	1	3	4	1	0	2	0	0	5	+11
Donny Marshall	—	1–2	1–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	-6
Bob Sura	—	0–0	0–0	1–2	1	2	3	5	0	0	2	5	1	-5
Team totals	—	29–67	5–15	10–13	9	27	36	19	6	4	13	21	73	—

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 1, Chicago Bulls 3 in NBA 1996-97.

28 Dec 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 97–102 Chicago Bulls
23 Jan 1997Chicago Bulls 87–71 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Feb 199770–73 this game
4 Apr 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 71–84 Chicago Bulls

Records going in

Chicago Bulls: 49–6
Cleveland Cavaliers: 30–24

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 121, Chicago Bulls 152.

23 Jan 1997Chicago Bulls 87–71 Cleveland Cavaliers
4 Apr 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 71–84 Chicago Bulls

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.