NBA 1998-99Regular season

Final

Detroit Pistons87–72Boston Celtics

Detroit Pistons at Boston Celtics

Date: Wednesday 31 March 1999
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 1998-99Regular season
Meeting: 339th meetingof 446 played

Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Lindsey Hunter	—	6–13	2–4	3–6	1	1	2	6	4	0	0	2	17	+11
Grant Hill	—	4–11	0–1	8–8	1	10	11	4	2	1	3	1	16	+14
Bison Dele	—	7–13	0–0	0–0	2	3	5	2	1	2	1	4	14	+6
Christian Laettner	—	2–6	0–0	5–8	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	9	+9
Don Reid	—	3–5	0–0	3–4	2	2	4	0	2	0	0	3	9	+11
Joe Dumars	—	3–10	1–5	2–4	1	1	2	3	1	0	1	0	9	+19
Jud Buechler	—	3–6	3–5	0–0	0	3	3	3	1	0	3	3	9	+1
Jerome Williams	—	2–4	0–0	0–0	6	4	10	0	1	0	0	3	4	+1
Team totals	—	30–68	6–15	21–30	15	25	40	19	13	3	9	16	87	—

Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Vitaly Potapenko	28:34	1–5	0–0	1–2	1	4	5	2	0	0	0	5	3	-9
Tony Battie	17:41	1–3	0–0	0–0	2	1	3	0	1	1	1	3	2	-3
Paul Pierce	—	8–13	4–7	0–0	2	5	7	0	0	1	4	2	20	-16
Antoine Walker	—	5–15	0–2	8–10	5	5	10	2	2	1	5	4	18	-15
Ron Mercer	—	7–13	0–0	2–2	0	1	1	1	2	0	2	2	16	-13
Kenny Anderson	—	3–7	0–0	3–3	1	3	4	7	0	0	3	4	9	-10
Bruce Bowen	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0
Greg Minor	—	1–4	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	-1
Dana Barros	—	0–3	0–1	0–0	1	3	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	-5
Dwayne Schintzius	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-3
Team totals	46:15	27–65	4–11	14–17	12	23	35	14	6	4	16	24	72	—

This season

Boston Celtics 0, Detroit Pistons 3 in NBA 1998-99.

12 Mar 1999Boston Celtics 83–93 Detroit Pistons
31 Mar 199987–72 this game
27 Apr 1999Detroit Pistons 92–85 Boston Celtics

Records going in

Detroit Pistons: 18–12
Boston Celtics: 10–18

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Boston Celtics 281, Detroit Pistons 165.

12 Mar 1999Boston Celtics 83–93 Detroit Pistons
27 Apr 1999Detroit Pistons 92–85 Boston Celtics

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.