NBA 2008-09Regular season

Final

Houston Rockets89–85Boston Celtics

Houston Rockets at Boston Celtics

Date: Wednesday 7 January 2009
Arena: Not recorded
Season: NBA 2008-09Regular season
Meeting: 145th meetingof 178 played

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Aaron Brooks	37:22	8–16	2–6	1–1	1	2	3	4	1	0	3	5	19	+8
Yao Ming	36:28	10–13	0–0	6–9	3	5	8	4	0	2	3	3	26	0
Metta World Peace	29:32	7–13	2–4	1–2	0	3	3	4	3	0	3	6	17	+12
Carl Landry	27:41	2–5	0–0	2–3	2	4	6	2	0	1	0	3	6	+8
Von Wafer	27:29	4–10	4–6	0–0	0	4	4	1	0	0	0	1	12	-11
Rafer Alston	24:59	1–5	0–1	0–0	0	1	1	3	1	0	2	0	2	-16
Brent Barry	24:43	1–2	1–2	0–0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	3	+19
Chuck Hayes	16:46	2–4	0–0	0–0	1	7	8	0	0	0	1	2	4	+4
Luis Scola	15:00	0–4	0–0	0–0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	-4
Team totals	240:00	35–72	9–19	10–15	8	28	36	19	5	3	12	25	89	—

Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Ray Allen	39:37	4–13	1–4	4–4	3	2	5	6	2	0	2	2	13	-2
Paul Pierce	38:06	7–14	4–6	8–8	2	3	5	4	1	0	4	2	26	-4
Kevin Garnett	34:17	9–19	0–0	0–1	1	7	8	2	1	1	1	1	18	-6
Rajon Rondo	33:28	2–4	0–0	1–4	0	0	0	5	0	0	1	2	5	+5
Glen Davis	22:46	4–6	0–0	4–4	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	3	12	+9
Kendrick Perkins	22:42	0–1	0–0	0–0	1	2	3	3	0	2	2	5	0	-7
Leon Powe	16:15	0–3	0–0	2–2	2	5	7	0	0	1	0	2	2	-4
Gabe Pruitt	15:10	3–5	1–2	0–0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	7	0
Eddie House	14:32	1–5	0–3	0–0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	-9
Brian Scalabrine	3:07	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-2
Team totals	240:00	30–70	6–15	19–23	9	23	32	20	5	4	11	19	85	—

This season

Boston Celtics 1, Houston Rockets 1 in NBA 2008-09.

4 Nov 2008Boston Celtics 103–99 Houston Rockets
7 Jan 200989–85 this game

Records going in

Houston Rockets: 21–15
Boston Celtics: 29–7

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Boston Celtics 115, Houston Rockets 63.

4 Nov 2008Boston Celtics 103–99 Houston Rockets
19 Mar 2010Boston Celtics 94–87 Houston Rockets

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.