NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Phoenix Suns104–99Houston Rockets

Phoenix Suns at Houston Rockets

Date: Saturday 22 March 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 137th meetingof 244 played

Phoenix Suns

Phoenix Suns box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Rex Chapman	10–16	5–9	2–2	1	5	6	3	2	0	3	0	27	+5
Kevin Johnson	8–17	2–4	3–4	0	5	5	13	0	0	4	1	21	0
Danny Manning	7–12	0–1	1–2	1	3	4	0	1	0	2	3	15	+4
Jason Kidd	4–10	1–3	3–3	0	10	10	15	0	0	2	3	12	+1
Wesley Person	5–9	2–4	0–0	2	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	12	+13
Wayman Tisdale	5–11	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	1	2	5	10	+5
Hot Rod Williams	3–6	0–0	1–2	0	7	7	2	2	1	0	0	7	-5
Horacio Llamas	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
Team totals	42–82	10–21	10–13	5	36	41	33	5	2	14	12	104	—

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Hakeem Olajuwon	18–31	0–0	3–3	1	6	7	3	2	0	1	1	39	+3
Clyde Drexler	6–18	3–9	2–2	7	3	10	11	2	0	3	3	17	-1
Kevin Willis	5–14	0–0	2–2	5	6	11	0	3	0	2	4	12	-4
Mario Elie	5–9	1–3	1–1	0	5	5	6	0	0	1	1	12	+1
Othella Harrington	4–5	0–0	1–2	1	6	7	0	0	1	0	1	9	-9
Matt Maloney	2–9	1–4	1–2	0	2	2	5	0	0	1	3	6	-4
Randy Livingston	1–1	0–0	0–0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	-3
Sedale Threatt	1–6	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	4	2	0	0	0	2	-2
Eddie Johnson	0–4	0–1	0–0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	-6
Team totals	42–97	5–17	10–12	17	32	49	30	9	1	9	15	99	—

This season

Houston Rockets 2, Phoenix Suns 2 in NBA 1996-97.

2 Nov 1996Houston Rockets 110–95 Phoenix Suns
21 Nov 1996Phoenix Suns 105–115 Houston Rockets
22 Mar 1997104–99 this game
2 Apr 1997Houston Rockets 96–109 Phoenix Suns

Records going in

Phoenix Suns: 28–39
Houston Rockets: 45–22

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Houston Rockets 123, Phoenix Suns 121.

21 Nov 1996Phoenix Suns 105–115 Houston Rockets
2 Apr 1997Houston Rockets 96–109 Phoenix Suns

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.