Cavaliers 97-86 Spurs (28 Feb, 2009) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

45-12, 19-11 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	27	18	32	20	97
SA	13	25	18	30	86

San Antonio Spurs

39-18, 20-8 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

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

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
32	12-23	3-6	3-3	4	10	14	4	2	0	1	2	+29	30
28	4-10	0-0	2-2	4	6	10	1	1	1	2	2	+17	10
29	2-5	0-0	2-2	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	2	+30	6
33	4-9	0-3	1-1	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	3	+22	9
27	6-9	0-2	5-7	3	4	7	5	2	1	5	6	+20	17
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
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	1-2	0-0	0-0	2	1	3	1	2	0	0	1	-10	2
14	1-3	0-0	3-4	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	2	-21	5
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	2-9	2-3	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	4	-3	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	4-13	2-7	0-0	0	2	2	3	1	0	1	1	-10	10
4	0-0	0-0	2-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-10	2
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-9	0
	36-83	7-21	18-23	15	31	46	15	9	4	13	25		97
	43.4%	33.3%	78.3%

San Antonio Spurs

starters
K. Thomas PF
M. Bonner C
M. Finley SG
R. Mason Jr. SG
T. Parker G
bench
P. Mensah-Bonsu PF
I. Udoka F
B. Bowen SF
T. Duncan C
I. Mahinmi C
F. Oberto C
J. Vaughn PG
G. Hill PG
M. Hairston SG
M. Ginobili G
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
21	3-7	0-0	0-0	0	6	6	1	0	0	1	2	-11	6
27	4-11	1-2	0-0	0	3	3	2	0	1	0	3	-31	9
27	5-9	1-2	0-0	2	5	7	1	0	3	0	1	-4	11
22	4-6	2-4	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	-12	10
30	3-16	0-1	5-6	2	3	5	6	1	0	3	0	-22	11
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
12	3-3	0-0	5-7	4	2	6	0	1	1	1	3	+10	11
18	0-7	0-2	1-2	1	5	6	1	0	1	0	2	+17	1
17	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	-19	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	2-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	1	0	0	3	3	-12	4
9	0-1	0-0	4-4	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	+12	4
21	4-7	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	5	1	0	1	4	+12	8
20	5-8	0-0	1-1	1	0	1	2	0	1	1	0	+5	11
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	33-79	4-12	16-20	12	28	40	23	4	7	12	20		86
	41.8%	33.3%	80.0%

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

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 1-0

Cavaliers
97
Spurs
86

Game 1

28/2

Spurs
81
Cavaliers
101

Game 2

5/4

Frost Bank Center

2:30 AM, 28 February 2009

San Antonio, TX

Attendance: 18,797

Referees:
Scott Foster
Kevin Fehr
Phil Robinson

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
Dallas	50	32	.610	-	L2
New Orleans	49	33	.598	1	L1
Houston	41	41	.500	9	W2
Memphis	27	55	.329	23	L5
San Antonio	22	60	.268	28	W2

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