Celtics 78-71 Cavaliers (18 Apr, 1998) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

46-35, 20-21 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	20	24	16	11	71
BOS	21	25	20	12	78

Boston Celtics

36-45, 24-17 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
C. Henderson F
W. Person SF
Z. Ilgauskas C
S. Kemp C
B. Knight PG
bench
D. Ferry F
V. Potapenko C
B. Sura PG
D. Anderson SG
C. Thomas G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
28	3-6	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	1	0	6
42	1-7	0-3	0-2	0	5	5	4	0	0	2	2	0	2
34	11-15	0-0	4-4	3	3	6	0	0	0	1	2	0	26
30	3-9	0-0	7-10	1	7	8	2	1	2	5	5	0	13
32	3-10	0-0	2-2	1	5	6	7	1	0	2	2	0	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	1-6	0-3	0-0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
13	4-7	0-0	0-0	2	3	5	1	0	1	0	4	0	8
18	1-4	0-2	0-0	1	2	3	2	0	0	2	1	0	2
19	1-6	0-1	2-2	2	3	5	0	1	0	1	2	0	4
5	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
	28-71	0-9	15-20	11	32	43	19	3	3	19	21		71
	39.4%	0.0%	75.0%

Boston Celtics

starters
W. McCarty PF
A. Walker PF
Z. Tabak C
D. Barros PG
R. Mercer SG
bench
R. Hanson F
A. DeClercq C
T. Knight C
T. Edney G
G. Minor G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
37	3-6	2-2	1-5	5	6	11	1	1	0	1	3	0	9
41	6-19	1-4	4-6	2	7	9	8	2	0	3	4	0	17
9	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0
34	3-10	1-6	0-0	0	6	6	2	3	0	3	3	0	7
40	6-19	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	1	1	0	2	2	0	12
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	0-2	0-0	2-2	0	4	4	1	1	1	1	5	0	2
21	3-5	0-0	4-4	1	2	3	0	0	1	0	2	0	10
14	3-5	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	6
27	7-10	0-0	1-1	2	1	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	15
	31-77	4-12	12-18	11	30	41	17	9	2	13	23		78
	40.3%	33.3%	66.7%

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

Regular Season Series

CLE wins 3-1

Cavaliers
96
Celtics
92

Game 1

8/11

Celtics
97
Cavaliers
103

Game 2

30/11

Celtics
86
Cavaliers
95

Game 3

15/4

Cavaliers
71
Celtics
78

Game 4

18/4

TD Garden

12:00 AM, 18 April 1998

Boston, MA

Attendance: 18,624

Referees:
Eddie F. Rush
Blane Reichelt
James Capers

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Milwaukee	49	33	.598	-	L2
Cleveland	48	34	.585	1	L1
Indiana	47	35	.573	2	W1
Chicago	39	43	.476	10	L1
Detroit	14	68	.171	35	L1

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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