Heat 86-66 Rockets (22 Dec, 1996) Box Score

Miami Heat

19-7, 13-2 away

	1	2	3	4	T
MIA	25	26	12	23	86
HOU	19	19	20	8	66

Houston Rockets

21-5, 10-3 home

Miami Heat

starters
P.J. Brown PF
K. Askins F
A. Mourning C
T. Hardaway G
S. Danilovic G
bench
K. Thomas PF
M. Strickland F
M. Muursepp F
I. Austin C
V. Lenard SG
G. Grant G
J. Scott G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	2-6	0-0	2-2	3	4	7	2	2	5	3	4	0	6
28	1-4	1-3	0-0	2	2	4	1	1	0	2	1	0	3
39	7-11	0-0	4-4	5	12	17	5	1	3	5	5	0	18
39	7-23	2-10	2-2	0	3	3	7	2	0	2	0	0	18
26	3-9	2-6	0-1	1	4	5	2	0	0	0	4	0	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
20	0-2	0-0	2-2	1	3	4	0	0	0	1	6	0	2
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	1-2	0-0	0-2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
9	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	3	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	2
38	7-15	5-11	3-3	1	4	5	0	1	1	1	3	0	22
7	2-3	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
	31-77	11-31	13-16	15	36	51	19	7	10	16	25		86
	40.3%	35.5%	81.3%

Houston Rockets

starters
H. Olajuwon C
K. Willis C
M. Elie G
M. Maloney G
T. Moore G
bench
O. Harrington PF
M. Bullard F
R. Livingston PG
S. Mack G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
42	6-17	1-1	7-11	4	9	13	3	5	2	3	3	0	20
36	4-11	0-0	1-4	5	7	12	0	0	1	3	5	0	9
46	5-11	1-2	2-3	1	2	3	2	1	0	6	4	0	13
26	2-7	1-4	2-2	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	7
32	2-7	1-3	3-5	1	1	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
18	3-8	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	6
7	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	1-8	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	3
9	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	23-71	4-12	16-27	15	25	40	12	8	4	16	17		66
	32.4%	33.3%	59.3%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

MIA leads 1-0

Heat
86
Rockets
66

Game 1

22/12

Rockets
80
Heat
101

Game 2

16/3

12:30 AM, 22 December 1996

Attendance: 16,285

Referees:
Jess Kersey
Ron Olesiak
Leon Wood

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	64	18	.780	-	W2
New York	50	32	.610	14	W5
Philadelphia	47	35	.573	17	W8
Brooklyn	32	50	.390	32	L2
Toronto	25	57	.305	39	L4

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