NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Detroit Pistons82–85Cleveland Cavaliers

Detroit Pistons at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Monday 17 March 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 130th meetingof 273 played

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Otis Thorpe	3–7	0–0	14–17	1	1	2	3	2	1	2	6	20	+11
Grant Hill	8–17	0–1	3–6	1	10	11	7	4	0	4	3	19	+1
Lindsey Hunter	5–10	5–7	1–2	2	0	2	4	1	0	0	3	16	-1
Joe Dumars	3–6	2–4	3–5	0	1	1	5	0	0	1	1	11	-2
Michael Curry	2–4	1–3	0–1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	5	-10
Terry Mills	1–8	1–4	2–4	0	5	5	0	0	1	2	2	5	-12
Theo Ratliff	2–4	0–0	0–0	2	2	4	0	2	0	1	4	4	+11
Grant Long	1–3	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	-9
Aaron McKie	0–1	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	-5
Litterial Green	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	+1
Team totals	25–60	9–19	23–35	7	21	28	19	12	2	13	22	82	—

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Tyrone Hill	11–13	0–0	4–10	1	9	10	1	1	0	0	5	26	+2
Chris Mills	8–14	1–5	2–2	1	5	6	4	1	2	2	4	19	+2
Bob Sura	5–10	1–4	4–10	1	3	4	10	0	1	3	2	15	0
Bobby Phills	6–11	0–0	1–2	0	4	4	3	4	0	2	2	13	+7
Danny Ferry	3–7	1–2	3–3	2	5	7	1	0	0	2	2	10	+6
Vitaly Potapenko	1–2	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	1	1	4	2	0
Antonio Lang	0–1	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	-4
Mark West	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	+3
Reggie Geary	0–3	0–2	0–0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	-1
Team totals	34–61	3–13	14–27	7	27	34	21	6	5	12	23	85	—

This season

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

16 Nov 1996Detroit Pistons 102–98 Cleveland Cavaliers
6 Dec 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 81–93 Detroit Pistons
17 Mar 199782–85 this game
18 Apr 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 82–75 Detroit Pistons

Records going in

Detroit Pistons: 47–17
Cleveland Cavaliers: 34–29

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

6 Dec 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 81–93 Detroit Pistons
18 Apr 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 82–75 Detroit Pistons

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.