Cleveland Cavaliers @ New Jersey Nets

PLAYOFFS • CLE leads series 4-2

50-32, 20-21 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	32	21	8	27	88
Nets NJ	15	23	22	12	72

New Jersey NetsNetsNJ

41-41, 24-17 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Drew GoodenD. Gooden
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Larry HughesL. Hughes
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
bench
Donyell MarshallD. Marshall
Dwayne Jones IID. Jones II
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Damon JonesD. Jones
Eric SnowE. Snow
Shannon BrownS. Brown
David WesleyD. Wesley
Daniel GibsonD. Gibson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
27	16	8-11	0-0	0-0	7	0	2	0	0	2	5	2	0
39	23	8-20	1-5	6-9	8	8	2	1	0	1	7	4	0
29	6	2-5	0-0	2-2	6	1	3	0	0	2	4	3	0
35	5	1-6	1-2	2-4	3	3	1	2	1	1	2	2	0
26	3	1-8	1-3	0-0	1	3	2	3	0	0	1	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
19	18	6-11	6-10	0-0	5	0	1	0	0	0	5	4	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	6	3-3	0-0	0-1	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	3	0
12	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
15	3	1-3	0-0	1-2	2	1	0	2	0	0	2	3	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	8	3-8	2-6	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	88	33-76	11-27	11-18	40	18	12	9	2	8	32	24
		43%	41%	61%

New Jersey Nets

starters
Richard JeffersonR. Jefferson
Mikki MooreM. Moore
Jason CollinsJ. Collins
Jason KiddJ. Kidd
Vince CarterV. Carter
bench
Bostjan NachbarB. Nachbar
Antoine WrightA. Wright
Hassan AdamsH. Adams
Nenad KrsticN. Krstic
Mile IlicM. Ilic
Josh BooneJ. Boone
Marcus WilliamsM. Williams
Eddie HouseE. House
Bernard RobinsonB. Robinson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
45	16	7-16	0-2	2-2	8	2	3	0	1	0	8	2	0
38	14	4-8	0-0	6-7	7	1	2	2	0	1	6	3	0
29	2	1-3	0-0	0-2	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	3	0
44	19	7-20	1-7	4-7	12	8	0	2	0	2	10	1	0
41	11	4-11	0-2	3-5	5	4	5	1	1	2	3	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	5	0	2	1	0	1	4	1	0
16	7	2-4	1-1	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
1	0	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
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	72	26-69	3-16	17-25	42	17	16	6	2	7	35	16
		38%	19%	68%

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

Matchups

CLE

CLE leads series

4-2

Game 1@ CLE

Final

102

Game 2@ CLE

Final

Game 3@ NJ

Final

Game 4@ NJ

Final

Game 5@ CLE

Final

Game 6@ NJ

Final

Game Information

East Rutherford, NJ

ESPN

Referee:Eddie F. Rush

Referee:Jim Clark

Referee:Joe DeRosa

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	60	22	.732	-	W3
Cleveland	52	30	.634	8	W1
Milwaukee	32	50	.390	28	L1
Chicago	31	51	.378	29	L2
Indiana	19	63	.232	41	L2

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