New Orleans Hornets @ Cleveland Cavaliers

23-13, 11-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets NO	17	19	22	20	78
Cavaliers CLE	28	23	17	24	92

Cleveland CavaliersCavaliersCLE

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New Orleans Hornets

starters
David WestD. West
Peja StojakovicP. Stojakovic
Rasual ButlerR. Butler
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler
Chris PaulC. Paul
bench
Sean MarksS. Marks
Hilton ArmstrongH. Armstrong
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
James PoseyJ. Posey
Julian WrightJ. Wright
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Antonio DanielsA. Daniels
Morris PetersonM. Peterson
Devin BrownD. Brown
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
41	23	6-16	0-0	11-13	5	1	5	0	2	1	4	3	-12
40	15	5-13	4-8	1-1	6	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	-10
36	10	4-8	1-3	1-2	3	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	-10
28	2	1-3	0-0	0-2	9	0	3	0	1	4	5	4	-19
40	18	5-14	0-4	8-8	7	6	3	0	0	1	6	2	-19
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	2	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	+3
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	4	1-5	0-2	2-2	5	3	0	1	0	1	4	4	-8
1	2	1-1	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
8	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	+5
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	4	2-6	0-1	0-0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	0
	78	25-67	5-18	23-28	40	11	0	3	7	9	31	19
		37%	28%	82%

Cleveland Cavaliers

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

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
16	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	8	0	1	1	0	3	5	0	+5
43	29	12-24	0-2	5-6	14	7	4	3	1	3	11	3	+18
23	4	2-7	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	2	0	1	6	-1
36	17	4-13	0-6	9-11	3	4	0	0	1	1	2	4	+8
43	19	7-10	4-4	1-1	6	1	0	2	0	1	5	1	+15
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+7
--	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
10	1	0-4	0-0	1-2	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	+2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	14	4-6	4-5	2-2	4	2	0	0	0	0	4	3	+11
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	6	2-10	2-5	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	3	+4
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-1
	92	32-75	10-22	18-22	42	15	0	6	5	8	34	24
		43%	45%	82%

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

Matchups

Season tied

1-1

CLE

104

Game 1@ NO

Final

Game 2@ CLE

Final

Game Information

Cleveland, OH

ESPNFSOH

Referee:Steve Javie

Referee:Tony Brothers

Referee:Derek Richardson

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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