Cavaliers 96-88 Nets (22 Mar, 2009) Box Score

Cleveland Cavaliers

57-13, 25-12 away

	1	2	3	4	T
CLE	27	21	23	25	96
NJ	21	17	17	33	88

New Jersey Nets

30-40, 15-20 home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Mo WilliamsM. Williams
Delonte WestD. West
bench
Joe SmithJ. Smith
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
Lorenzen WrightL. Wright
Darnell JacksonD. Jackson
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson
Eric SnowE. Snow
Wally SzczerbiakW. Szczerbiak
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
Tarence KinseyT. Kinsey
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
39	9-17	1-4	11-15	2	9	11	8	1	0	1	0	+14	30
26	9-14	0-0	0-0	1	5	6	0	0	4	0	4	+18	18
33	6-10	0-0	4-9	2	9	11	1	0	1	1	4	+17	16
38	3-10	1-3	0-0	2	5	7	2	0	0	0	2	+10	7
34	1-5	1-2	0-0	0	3	3	5	0	0	0	2	+16	3
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
19	4-8	0-0	1-1	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	5	-7	9
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
10	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	-6	4
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	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	2-6	1-1	1-2	1	2	3	2	0	0	1	4	-14	6
22	0-4	0-2	3-4	1	1	2	6	0	0	1	3	-8	3
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	36-76	4-12	20-31	9	37	46	25	1	5	6	25		96
	47.4%	33.3%	64.5%

New Jersey Nets

starters
Trenton HassellT. Hassell
Yi JianlianY. Jianlian
Brook LopezB. Lopez
Keyon DoolingK. Dooling
Vince CarterV. Carter
bench
Eduardo NajeraE. Najera
Sean WilliamsS. Williams
Ryan AndersonR. Anderson
Bobby SimmonsB. Simmons
Jarvis HayesJ. Hayes
Maurice AgerM. Ager
Josh BooneJ. Boone
Chris Douglas-RobertsC. Douglas-Roberts
Devin HarrisD. Harris
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
26	1-5	0-0	2-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4	-23	4
15	1-8	0-0	2-2	3	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	-18	4
38	5-13	0-1	6-7	1	5	6	3	1	0	0	1	-12	16
41	7-9	1-2	4-4	0	5	5	4	1	0	2	2	-12	19
43	11-23	0-4	3-6	0	9	9	5	0	1	0	4	-14	25
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
6	1-3	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-1	2
27	2-7	2-6	2-2	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	3	+11	8
24	2-7	0-3	2-2	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	3	+17	6
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	0-0	0-0	0-2	0	3	3	0	0	1	1	1	+5	0
9	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	+7	4
0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	32-78	3-18	21-27	6	31	37	13	2	2	5	20		88
	41.0%	16.7%	77.8%

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

Regular Season Series

CLE leads 2-0

Cavaliers
106
Nets
82

Game 1

19/11

Cavaliers
96
Nets
88

Game 2

22/3

Nets
87
Cavaliers
98

Game 3

25/3

IZOD Center

10:00 PM, 22 March 2009

East Rutherford, NJ

Attendance: 18,348

Referees:
Dan Crawford
Luis Grillo
Sean Wright

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

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