NBA 1996-97Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers71–84Chicago Bulls

Cleveland Cavaliers at Chicago Bulls

Date: Friday 4 April 1997
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1996-97Regular season
Meeting: 149th meetingof 273 played

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Terrell Brandon	8–14	2–2	0–0	2	0	2	2	1	0	2	3	18	-24
Tyrone Hill	7–11	0–0	4–8	2	8	10	1	1	0	1	4	18	-14
Danny Ferry	5–12	0–3	0–0	3	2	5	4	0	0	0	0	10	-11
Vitaly Potapenko	3–8	1–1	0–0	2	2	4	0	2	0	3	4	7	-3
Chris Mills	2–11	0–1	2–2	1	3	4	3	1	0	2	3	6	-14
Antonio Lang	2–3	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	1	0	1	2	2	4	-4
Donny Marshall	0–4	0–3	3–4	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	3	0
Reggie Geary	1–2	1–1	0–0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	+4
Bob Sura	0–7	0–2	2–2	1	8	9	3	0	0	3	6	2	-6
Carl Thomas	0–1	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	+6
Team totals	28–73	4–13	11–16	13	27	40	17	5	1	13	24	71	—

Chicago Bulls

Chicago Bulls box score
Player	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Michael Jordan	9–16	0–1	4–5	1	4	5	3	1	2	0	2	22	+18
Scottie Pippen	6–15	2–5	1–6	0	7	7	4	2	3	0	3	15	+17
Luc Longley	3–7	0–0	8–8	1	4	5	6	0	1	2	3	14	+8
Randy Brown	3–5	0–0	2–4	0	1	1	1	2	1	1	0	8	-2
Bison Dele	2–2	0–0	2–4	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	6	-2
Dickey Simpkins	1–1	0–0	2–2	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	+5
Jason Caffey	2–5	0–0	0–0	2	4	6	0	0	0	1	3	4	+5
Ron Harper	2–4	0–2	0–0	1	2	3	3	1	0	0	3	4	-1
Steve Kerr	2–4	0–1	0–0	1	3	4	3	1	1	0	1	4	+4
Jud Buechler	1–5	1–4	0–1	0	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	3	+13
Team totals	31–64	3–13	19–30	8	29	37	22	7	9	8	16	84	—

This season

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

28 Dec 1996Cleveland Cavaliers 97–102 Chicago Bulls
23 Jan 1997Chicago Bulls 87–71 Cleveland Cavaliers
27 Feb 1997Chicago Bulls 70–73 Cleveland Cavaliers
4 Apr 199771–84 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 38–35
Chicago Bulls: 63–10

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

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

27 Feb 1997Chicago Bulls 70–73 Cleveland Cavaliers
11 Nov 1997Chicago Bulls 80–101 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.