Cavaliers 105-88 Nuggets (20 Dec, 2008) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

22-4, 9-4 away

105

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	37	27	20	21	105
DEN	21	32	12	23	88

Denver Nuggets

17-9, 9-4 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
B. Wallace
L. James
Z. Ilgauskas
M. Williams
D. West
bench
L. Wright
D. Jackson
J. Williams
A. Varejao
J. Hickson
E. Snow
W. Szczerbiak
S. Pavlovic
D. Gibson
T. Kinsey
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
23	1-2	0-0	0-2	1	4	5	3	0	2	0	1	+6	2
39	13-20	0-2	7-8	3	7	10	8	0	0	6	3	+14	33
28	9-14	2-3	3-4	0	6	6	2	1	0	2	4	+21	23
35	3-9	1-4	1-1	1	6	7	3	0	0	3	3	0	8
34	8-13	2-5	4-4	1	2	3	4	2	0	1	4	+26	22
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	1-4	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	1	2	2	0	4	+6	2
3	0-2	0-0	1-2	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	-1	1
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	2-6	0-1	3-3	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	3	-5	7
26	3-11	1-5	0-0	1	2	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	7
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	40-84	6-20	19-24	11	32	43	23	8	4	13	23		105
	47.6%	30.0%	79.2%

Denver Nuggets

starters
C. Anthony
K. Martin
N. Hilario
C. Billups
D. Jones
bench
C. Andersen
L. Kleiza
R. Balkman
S. Hunter
C. Atkins
A. Carter
J. Smith
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	5-14	3-5	0-0	0	2	2	1	1	0	5	6	-11	13
30	4-13	0-0	0-2	2	4	6	1	0	1	2	1	-15	8
26	0-2	0-0	1-2	1	2	3	1	1	0	2	4	-13	1
32	5-12	2-4	4-4	0	3	3	3	2	0	1	3	-21	16
19	3-4	0-0	0-2	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	4	-17	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
24	3-5	0-0	0-0	3	7	10	2	0	3	2	1	-7	6
25	5-10	1-3	0-1	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	+3	11
4	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	+1	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	+1	0
21	4-8	1-2	3-3	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	2	0	12
25	3-7	3-6	2-3	0	3	3	4	1	0	2	3	-6	11
	34-79	10-20	10-17	7	26	33	20	5	4	19	26		88
	43.0%	50.0%	58.8%

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

Regular Season Series

CLE wins 2-0

Nuggets
99
Cavaliers
110

Game 1

14/11

Cavaliers
105
Nuggets
88

Game 2

20/12

Ball Arena

3:30 AM, 20 December 2008

Denver, CO

Attendance: 19,155

Referees:
Dan Crawford
Leon Wood
Pat Fraher

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	8	0	1.000	-	W8
Chicago	3	4	.429	4.5	L2
Indiana	3	4	.429	4.5	W1
Detroit	3	5	.375	5	W2
Milwaukee	1	6	.143	6.5	L6

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	7	0	1.000	-	W7
Minnesota	4	3	.571	3	W1
Denver	4	3	.571	3	W2
Portland	3	5	.375	4.5	W1
Utah	1	6	.143	6	W1

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