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 PF
L. James SF
Z. Ilgauskas C
M. Williams PG
D. West SG
bench
L. Wright PF
D. Jackson PF
J. Williams SF
A. Varejao C
J. Hickson C
E. Snow PG
W. Szczerbiak SG
S. Pavlovic SG
D. Gibson SG
T. Kinsey SG
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 PF
K. Martin F
N. Hilario C
C. Billups PG
D. Jones SG
bench
C. Andersen PF
L. Kleiza SF
R. Balkman SF
S. Hunter C
C. Atkins PG
A. Carter PG
J. Smith G
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
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
Oklahoma City	57	25	.695	-	W5
Denver	57	25	.695	-	W1
Minnesota	56	26	.683	1	L1
Utah	31	51	.378	26	L1
Portland	21	61	.256	36	L5

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