NBA 2002-03Regular season

Final

Miami Heat72–74Cleveland Cavaliers

Miami Heat at Cleveland Cavaliers

Date: Monday 23 December 2002
Arena: Gund Arena8,973 fans
Season: NBA 2002-03Regular season
Meeting: 54th meetingof 141 played

Miami Heat

Miami Heat box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Travis Best	31:36	3–10	0–1	2–3	2	2	4	4	0	1	2	2	8	-10
Malik Allen	28:16	2–11	0–0	0–0	1	3	4	0	1	1	2	3	4	-2
Vladimir Stepania	25:15	0–4	0–0	0–0	1	7	8	1	1	2	3	2	0	+4
Mike James	20:51	3–9	1–3	0–0	1	3	4	0	0	1	1	5	7	+2
Rasual Butler	9:29	1–3	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	2	0	2	1	1	2	+5
Sean Marks	2:52	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	-1
Brian Grant	—	6–8	0–0	7–7	1	16	17	1	0	0	2	3	19	-8
Eddie Jones	—	6–15	3–5	3–6	0	2	2	2	1	3	3	4	18	+2
Caron Butler	—	2–8	1–1	9–10	2	3	5	1	0	0	2	2	14	-5
Anthony Carter	—	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	1	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	+3
Team totals	118:19	23–68	5–11	21–26	8	39	47	14	4	10	16	24	72	—

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Ricky Davis	42:45	11–27	2–4	9–14	2	3	5	5	2	0	2	2	33	+4
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	32:22	4–16	0–0	3–6	4	6	10	2	0	1	2	4	11	+6
Tyrone Hill	30:00	2–5	0–0	2–4	0	9	9	0	1	0	0	3	6	-1
Jumaine Jones	27:57	1–6	0–4	0–0	0	4	4	0	0	0	2	3	2	+1
Milt Palacio	27:45	3–4	1–1	0–0	1	2	3	0	0	0	2	3	7	0
Smush Parker	25:36	4–8	0–1	3–3	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	11	+4
Michael Stewart	1:56	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+2
Carlos Boozer	—	1–3	0–0	0–0	2	4	6	2	3	0	0	3	2	+1
Darius Miles	—	0–6	0–0	2–2	3	1	4	0	0	3	1	2	2	-7
Chris Mihm	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	-1
DeSagana Diop	—	0–2	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	+1
Team totals	188:21	26–79	3–10	19–29	14	31	45	10	6	5	10	24	74	—

This season

Cleveland Cavaliers 1, Miami Heat 2 in NBA 2002-03.

30 Nov 2002Cleveland Cavaliers 79–85 Miami Heat
23 Dec 200272–74 this game
11 Mar 2003Miami Heat 77–75 Cleveland Cavaliers

Records going in

Miami Heat: 9–18
Cleveland Cavaliers: 5–24

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Cleveland Cavaliers 59, Miami Heat 82.

30 Nov 2002Cleveland Cavaliers 79–85 Miami Heat
11 Mar 2003Miami Heat 77–75 Cleveland Cavaliers

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.