Celtics 89-73 Cavaliers (9 May, 2008) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

45-37, 18-23 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	24	12	15	22	73
BOS	17	27	26	19	89

Boston Celtics

66-16, 35-6 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Dwayne Jones IID. Jones II
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Lance AllredL. Allred
Eric SnowE. Snow
Devin BrownD. Brown
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Billy ThomasB. Thomas
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
4	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
42	6-24	0-4	9-13	2	3	5	6	2	1	7	1	0	21
31	9-12	0-0	1-2	1	4	5	1	0	2	2	4	0	19
35	4-11	1-4	4-4	0	1	1	3	1	0	0	4	0	13
35	1-5	0-1	1-2	1	6	7	5	0	4	3	3	0	3
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	2-7	0-0	0-0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	4
3	0-0	0-0	1-2	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
33	1-5	0-0	1-2	3	7	10	1	1	0	1	5	0	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
15	2-4	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	5
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	0-2	0-1	2-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	2
	26-73	2-13	19-27	10	29	39	18	4	7	15	27		73
	35.6%	15.4%	70.4%

Boston Celtics

starters
Kevin GarnettK. Garnett
Paul PierceP. Pierce
Kendrick PerkinsK. Perkins
Rajon RondoR. Rondo
Ray AllenR. Allen
bench
P.J. BrownP.J. Brown
Brian ScalabrineB. Scalabrine
Leon PoweL. Powe
Glen DavisG. Davis
James PoseyJ. Posey
Scot PollardS. Pollard
Sam CassellS. Cassell
Gabe PruittG. Pruitt
Eddie HouseE. House
Tony AllenT. Allen
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	5-9	0-0	3-3	3	9	12	4	1	1	1	4	0	13
36	7-13	1-5	4-6	0	6	6	2	2	1	0	1	0	19
21	0-2	0-0	0-2	0	4	4	0	0	0	3	4	0	0
23	0-6	0-0	7-7	3	2	5	6	2	0	4	2	0	7
37	4-10	1-3	7-8	1	0	1	3	2	0	2	2	0	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
6	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	4-7	0-0	3-6	4	3	7	1	0	0	0	4	0	11
3	0-2	0-0	2-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	2
22	3-6	1-4	0-0	0	6	6	1	3	0	0	2	0	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	4-12	0-2	1-2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	9
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	29-72	3-14	28-38	12	33	45	20	11	2	12	26		89
	40.3%	21.4%	73.7%

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

Cavaliers
72
Celtics
76

Game 1

7/5

Cavaliers
73
Celtics
89

Game 2

9/5

Celtics
84
Cavaliers
108

Game 3

11/5

Celtics
77
Cavaliers
88

Game 4

13/5

Cavaliers
89
Celtics
96

Game 5

15/5

Celtics
69
Cavaliers
74

Game 6

17/5

Cavaliers
92
Celtics
97

Game 7

18/5

TD Garden

12:00 AM, 9 May 2008

Boston, MA

Attendance: 18,624

Referees:
Joe Crawford
Derrick Stafford
Bill Spooner

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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