Chicago 104, Boston 108

April 23, 1987

Opening Round - Boston wins 3-0

Boston Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 14,890

Officials: Jack Madden, Mike Lauerman, Tommy Nunez

Team Rebounds: Chicago (0) Boston (0)

Technicals: Chicago (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
CHI (40-42) 24 23 26 31 104
BOS (59-23) 34 32 20 22 108

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
CHI 89 117.2 121.7
BOS 89 121.7 117.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
CHI .494 0.101 0.267 0.346
BOS .556 0.135 0.243 0.222

Chicago Bulls

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
20 Gene Banks Starter SF 37:00 8-13 0-0 3-3 10.6 3 2 5 2 4 0 0 2 19
40 Dave Corzine Starter C 33:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 4.0 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 2
23 Michael Jordan Starter SG 44:00 12-25 0-1 11-11 25.6 0 6 6 7 4 4 2 2 35
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 41:00 7-17 0-1 7-8 13.0 3 9 12 2 4 1 0 3 21
5 John Paxson Starter PG 27:00 4-7 1-1 1-1 10.1 0 1 1 6 2 0 0 0 10
6 Brad Sellers Bench C 23:00 1-6 0-0 3-3 1.6 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 5
3 Sedale Threatt Bench PG 27:00 5-8 0-0 2-2 9.8 0 2 2 6 4 0 0 1 12
21 Elston Turner Bench SG 02:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Granville Waiters Bench C 06:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 38-78 1-3 27-28 85.5 8 22 30 26 22 5 3 9 104
          48.7% 33.3% 96.4%                    

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
44 Danny Ainge Starter PG 40:00 8-12 2-2 2-2 16.8 0 4 4 8 3 0 0 3 20
33 Larry Bird Starter SF 46:00 4-7 2-2 7-7 29.6 3 6 9 13 2 2 0 1 17
3 Dennis Johnson Starter SG 43:00 5-13 0-2 6-6 10.5 1 2 3 6 4 1 0 1 16
32 Kevin McHale Starter PF 44:00 10-21 0-0 1-1 7.9 2 4 6 2 2 0 1 4 21
00 Robert Parish Starter C 41:00 9-14 0-0 1-2 14.8 1 10 11 1 3 0 2 3 19
20 Darren Daye Bench PF 04:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 -0.2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
12 Jerry Sichting Bench PG 13:00 4-7 0-0 0-0 3.5 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 8
5 Bill Walton Bench C 09:00 3-5 0-0 1-1 4.4 2 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 7
  Team                                
        240 43-81 4-6 18-19 101.1 9 28 37 31 20 3 5 12 108
          53.1% 66.7% 94.7%                    

Chicago Bulls Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters John Paxson
11.3p, 1.7r, 5.7a
Michael Jordan
37.1p, 5.2r, 4.6a
Gene Banks
9.7p, 4.9r, 2.7a
Charles Oakley
14.5p, 13.1r, 3.6a
Dave Corzine
8.3p, 6.6r, 2.6a
Rotation Sedale Threatt
8.5p, 1.6r, 3.8a
 
 
 
 
 
 
Brad Sellers
8.5p, 4.7r, 1.3a
Lim PT  
 
Elston Turner
3.5p, 1.6r, 1.5a
 
 
 
 
Granville Waiters
1.9p, 2r, 0.5a

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Danny Ainge
14.8p, 3.4r, 5.6a
Dennis Johnson
13.4p, 3.3r, 7.5a
Larry Bird
28.1p, 9.2r, 7.6a
Kevin McHale
26.1p, 9.9r, 2.6a
Robert Parish
17.6p, 10.6r, 2.2a
Rotation Jerry Sichting
5.7p, 1.2r, 2.4a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Darren Daye
3.8p, 2r, 1.2a
Bill Walton
2.8p, 3.1r, 0.9a

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