NBA 1997-98Regular season

Final

New Jersey Nets81–95Cleveland Cavaliers

New Jersey Nets at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Saturday 3 January 1998
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1997-98Regular season
Meeting: 111th meetingof 218 played

New Jersey Nets

New Jersey Nets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Keith Van Horn	45:29	5–16	0–4	5–6	2	4	6	1	0	1	3	2	15	-11
Sherman Douglas	45:03	7–16	0–1	6–6	0	2	2	9	1	1	3	3	20	-16
Kerry Kittles	43:50	6–16	0–2	3–4	1	3	4	6	4	0	3	0	15	-15
Kendall Gill	38:34	8–13	1–2	4–4	2	4	6	2	3	1	2	3	21	-9
Michael Cage	24:58	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	3	0	+1
Jayson Williams	21:29	2–6	0–0	0–0	2	5	7	0	1	2	2	3	4	-14
David Benoit	17:31	2–8	1–5	0–0	1	2	3	0	1	1	3	1	5	-4
Jack Haley	1:33	0–0	0–0	1–2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-1
Xavier McDaniel	1:33	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1
Team totals	240:00	30–75	2–14	19–22	8	24	32	18	11	6	17	15	81	—

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Shawn Kemp	—	10–14	0–0	1–3	2	8	10	2	1	5	4	3	21	+15
Derek Anderson	—	6–9	0–1	6–7	2	4	6	7	1	1	1	2	18	+2
Cedric Henderson	—	8–14	0–0	1–2	0	2	2	4	1	1	6	1	17	+16
Wesley Person	—	5–19	3–7	0–0	1	3	4	4	1	1	1	1	13	+14
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	—	4–11	0–0	0–0	4	9	13	0	0	2	2	2	8	+19
Brevin Knight	—	3–6	0–0	1–2	1	3	4	10	2	1	3	5	7	+9
Danny Ferry	—	2–4	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	3	4	-2
Vitaly Potapenko	—	2–3	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	2	4	-5
Tony Dumas	—	1–2	1–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	+4
Team totals	—	41–82	4–10	9–14	12	31	43	30	7	11	19	20	95	—

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 3, Brooklyn Nets 1 in NBA 1997-98.

13 Nov 1997Cleveland Cavaliers 85–74 New Jersey Nets
16 Nov 1997New Jersey Nets 77–72 Cleveland Cavaliers
3 Jan 199881–95 this game
20 Feb 1998Cleveland Cavaliers 109–95 New Jersey Nets

Records going in

New Jersey Nets: 17–13
Cleveland Cavaliers: 18–11

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 127, Brooklyn Nets 91.

16 Nov 1997New Jersey Nets 77–72 Cleveland Cavaliers
20 Feb 1998Cleveland Cavaliers 109–95 New Jersey Nets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.