Celtics 90-86 Pistons (24 Nov, 1997) Box Score

Detroit Pistons

5-9, 2-6 away

	1	2	3	4	T
DET	23	14	24	25	86
BOS	19	17	30	24	90

Boston Celtics

7-6, 5-3 home

Detroit Pistons

starters
Jerome WilliamsJ. Williams
Grant HillG. Hill
Bison DeleB. Dele
Lindsey HunterL. Hunter
Joe DumarsJ. Dumars
bench
Don ReidD. Reid
Theo RatliffT. Ratliff
Aaron McKieA. McKie
Malik SealyM. Sealy
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
7	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
35	5-12	0-0	11-11	0	11	11	4	2	1	8	5	0	21
34	8-14	0-0	3-5	3	7	10	2	0	0	2	1	0	19
45	4-11	1-4	7-8	0	6	6	4	1	0	2	5	0	16
41	4-14	2-7	0-0	0	1	1	4	0	0	2	1	0	10
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
5	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
9	0-1	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1
31	2-5	0-1	0-0	1	5	6	1	1	1	6	2	0	4
33	4-9	0-0	3-5	0	4	4	2	1	0	1	3	0	11
	29-70	3-12	25-31	6	35	41	18	6	2	25	20		86
	41.4%	25.0%	80.6%

Boston Celtics

starters
Walter McCartyW. McCarty
Antoine WalkerA. Walker
Travis KnightT. Knight
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Ron MercerR. Mercer
bench
Pervis EllisonP. Ellison
Andrew DeClercqA. DeClercq
John ThomasJ. Thomas
Dana BarrosD. Barros
Dee BrownD. Brown
Tyus EdneyT. Edney
Greg MinorG. Minor
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
24	2-8	0-2	2-2	1	3	4	3	2	0	2	6	0	6
38	12-23	1-4	4-7	4	3	7	1	0	0	2	2	0	29
27	2-6	0-3	0-0	0	5	5	2	0	1	2	2	0	4
34	4-10	2-7	3-4	0	4	4	6	0	0	4	2	0	13
34	7-15	0-0	2-4	1	4	5	2	1	0	2	3	0	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
18	3-5	0-0	0-0	3	1	4	0	1	1	0	5	0	6
6	0-2	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
3	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
3	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	2-8	1-5	4-4	0	2	2	1	2	1	0	3	0	9
10	0-4	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
21	1-1	0-0	1-2	0	5	5	4	4	0	2	2	0	3
	34-85	4-21	18-27	10	27	37	20	11	3	14	26		90
	40.0%	19.0%	66.7%

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

Regular Season Series

BOS leads 1-0

Pistons
86
Celtics
90

Game 1

24/11

Celtics
77
Pistons
93

Game 2

14/12

Pistons
96
Celtics
92

Game 3

14/3

Celtics
101
Pistons
100

Game 4

4/4

TD Garden

12:00 AM, 24 November 1997

Boston, MA

Attendance: 17,070

Referees:
Jim Clark
Ronnie Nunn
Kevin Fehr

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

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	22	7	.759	-	L1
New York	19	10	.655	3	W4
Brooklyn	11	18	.379	11	L2
Philadelphia	10	17	.370	11	W1
Toronto	7	23	.233	15.5	L8

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BOS leads 1-0

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