Cavaliers 103-94 Suns (3 Jan, 1997) Box Score

Phoenix Suns

10-20, 3-12 away

	1	2	3	4	T
PHX	25	17	29	23	94
CLE	29	29	21	24	103

Cleveland Cavaliers

20-10, 14-4 home

103

Phoenix Suns

starters
Robert HorryR. Horry
Mark BryantM. Bryant
John Hotrod WilliamsJ. Williams
Rex ChapmanR. Chapman
Kevin JohnsonK. Johnson
bench
Danny ManningD. Manning
Wayman TisdaleW. Tisdale
Wesley PersonW. Person
Joe KleineJ. Kleine
Loren MeyerL. Meyer
Steve NashS. Nash
Tony DumasT. Dumas
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
23	1-3	1-3	0-2	1	1	2	3	1	0	3	2	0	3
29	5-10	0-0	1-2	3	3	6	3	1	0	2	2	0	11
23	6-11	0-0	2-2	3	5	8	2	0	1	2	2	0	14
42	6-13	1-6	0-0	0	5	5	4	1	0	3	3	0	13
41	5-10	2-4	13-13	1	0	1	6	1	0	4	1	0	25
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
33	9-14	0-0	4-5	1	1	2	5	2	2	4	2	0	22
5	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
27	2-5	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	4
8	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
5	0-1	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	34-69	4-15	22-26	9	17	26	25	8	3	20	20		94
	49.3%	26.7%	84.6%

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Tyrone HillT. Hill
Danny FerryD. Ferry
Bobby PhillsB. Phills
Chris MillsC. Mills
Terrell BrandonT. Brandon
bench
Antonio LangA. Lang
Vitaly PotapenkoV. Potapenko
Mark WestM. West
Bob SuraB. Sura
Carl ThomasC. Thomas
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
37	4-8	0-0	4-4	3	4	7	1	3	0	1	3	0	12
33	5-10	3-6	1-2	1	2	3	3	1	0	5	4	0	14
39	4-12	1-6	2-4	2	4	6	7	3	0	4	3	0	11
39	9-12	0-1	2-2	3	5	8	2	1	1	2	3	0	20
35	5-13	1-2	3-3	0	2	2	9	2	1	3	3	0	14
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
21	4-7	0-1	0-0	1	2	3	1	2	0	2	2	0	8
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
11	3-3	0-0	0-2	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	6
22	6-9	2-4	4-4	0	4	4	5	0	0	2	6	0	18
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	40-74	7-20	16-21	12	24	36	28	12	2	19	27		103
	54.1%	35.0%	76.2%

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

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 1-0

Suns
94
Cavaliers
103

Game 1

3/1

Cavaliers
88
Suns
94

Game 2

22/2

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

12:30 AM, 3 January 1997

Cleveland, OH

Attendance: 15,272

Referees:
Bill Oakes
Joe DeRosa
Kevin Fehr

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Clippers	17	13	.567	-	W1
LA Lakers	16	13	.552	0.5	L1
Golden State	15	13	.536	1	L1
Phoenix	14	14	.500	2	L3
Sacramento	13	17	.433	4	L4

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	26	4	.867	-	W5
Milwaukee	16	12	.571	9	W2
Indiana	15	15	.500	11	W5
Chicago	13	17	.433	13	L2
Detroit	13	17	.433	13	W2

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