Cavaliers 74-69 Celtics (17 May, 2008) Box Score

Boston Celtics

66-16, 31-10 away

	1	2	3	4	T
BOS	18	15	17	19	69
CLE	18	24	17	15	74

Cleveland Cavaliers

45-37, 27-14 home

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
Glen DavisG. Davis
James PoseyJ. Posey
Scot PollardS. Pollard
Gabe PruittG. Pruitt
Eddie HouseE. House
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
43	11-21	0-2	3-4	2	6	8	2	0	2	3	1	0	25
40	5-15	2-6	4-4	1	4	5	3	2	0	6	4	0	16
27	2-4	0-0	1-2	1	2	3	2	0	2	2	5	0	5
31	1-4	0-0	0-0	0	5	5	5	2	0	3	3	0	2
42	3-8	0-3	3-3	1	5	6	2	1	0	0	2	0	9
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
8	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	2-8	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	1	1	1	5	0	4
14	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	3	3	4	1	0	1	2	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	0	0
18	3-5	2-3	0-0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	8
	27-68	4-16	11-13	7	30	37	19	8	5	17	25		69
	39.7%	25.0%	84.6%

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Lance AllredL. Allred
Damon JonesD. Jones
Eric SnowE. Snow
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	0-3	0-0	0-0	1	5	6	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
47	9-23	1-3	13-15	3	9	12	6	2	1	8	2	0	32
31	3-11	0-0	1-1	5	5	10	1	0	3	0	3	0	7
30	2-11	1-6	4-4	0	2	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	9
45	4-7	2-3	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	4	1	0	10
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
27	3-4	0-0	3-4	1	4	5	1	1	0	0	3	0	9
15	2-6	0-0	0-1	3	2	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0-2	0-1	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
19	1-6	1-3	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	24-73	5-16	21-25	16	29	45	10	5	7	16	16		74
	32.9%	31.3%	84.0%

+/- 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

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

1:00 AM, 17 May 2008

Cleveland, OH

Attendance: 20,562

Referees:
Dick Bavetta
Joe DeRosa
Joe Forte

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	12	3	.800	-	W3
New York	9	6	.600	3	W4
Brooklyn	6	9	.400	6	W1
Toronto	4	12	.250	8.5	W2
Philadelphia	2	12	.143	9.5	L5

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	16	1	.941	-	W1
Detroit	7	10	.412	9	L2
Indiana	6	9	.400	9	L2
Milwaukee	6	9	.400	9	W2
Chicago	6	10	.375	9.5	L1

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