New York 127, L.A. Lakers 121

February 23, 1997

Regular Season

The Forum (Inglewood, California)

Attendance: 17,505

Officials: Bennett Salvatore, Jim Clark, Blane Reichelt

Team Rebounds: New York (13) Los Angeles (10)

Technicals: New York (0) Los Angeles (0)

  1 2 3 4 OT 2OT Final
NYK (40-15) 20 28 25 30 7 17 127
LAL (38-16) 18 21 24 40 7 11 121

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 117 109.0 103.8
LAL 117 103.8 109.0

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .485 0.189 0.317 0.262
LAL .465 0.146 0.292 0.293

New York Knicks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Chris Childs Starter PG 49:00 6-13 2-5 2-4 18.5 0 3 3 13 3 4 0 4 16
33 Patrick Ewing Starter C 51:00 12-25 0-0 10-12 33.0 8 17 25 4 5 1 5 6 34
20 Allan Houston Starter SG 47:00 9-19 5-9 6-7 16.4 0 1 1 5 3 0 1 1 29
2 Larry Johnson Starter SF 43:00 5-13 0-1 0-0 6.8 6 2 8 1 4 0 2 2 10
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 45:00 7-16 0-0 6-8 20.8 5 11 16 6 5 2 0 3 20
3 John Starks Bench SG 26:00 5-12 3-5 3-6 12.0 0 3 3 5 2 3 0 2 16
21 Charlie Ward Bench PG 12:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -4.8 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 4 0
52 Buck Williams Bench PF 17:00 1-4 0-0 0-2 0.8 1 4 5 0 3 0 0 0 2
  Team                   13            
        290 45-103 10-20 27-39 131.4 20 43 76 34 28 10 8 22 127
          43.7% 50.0% 69.2%                    

Los Angeles Lakers

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
41 Elden Campbell Starter PF 46:00 12-24 1-1 15-19 22.1 3 7 10 4 6 0 4 6 40
6 Eddie Jones Starter SG 51:00 5-18 2-7 10-11 11.9 0 8 8 2 3 3 1 3 22
12 Jerome Kersey Starter SF 23:00 4-10 0-0 0-2 7.0 3 3 6 1 2 4 0 2 8
40 Travis Knight Starter C 50:00 9-17 0-0 0-0 14.0 6 7 13 1 5 0 1 2 18
9 Nick Van Exel Starter PG 54:00 3-13 1-9 2-2 15.8 0 3 3 16 2 2 0 2 9
24 Kobe Bryant Bench SG 04:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 -1.2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Derek Fisher Bench PG 04:00 0-2 0-1 0-0 0.2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
24 George McCloud Bench SF 16:00 2-4 2-2 0-0 3.2 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 6
45 Sean Rooks Bench C 19:00 1-3 0-0 2-2 4.0 1 2 3 1 5 0 2 0 4
4 Byron Scott Bench SG 23:00 6-6 2-2 0-0 14.8 1 1 2 1 3 4 0 0 14
  Team                   10            
        290 42-99 8-23 29-36 109.8 14 34 58 29 28 13 8 17 121
          42.4% 34.8% 80.6%                    

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Childs
10.3p, 3r, 6.2a		 Allan Houston
15.2p, 3r, 2a		 Larry Johnson
12.4p, 4.9r, 2.3a		 Charles Oakley
10.7p, 9.7r, 2.7a		 Patrick Ewing
21.5p, 10.9r, 1.9a
Rotation Charlie Ward
5.5p, 3r, 4.5a		 John Starks
13.6p, 2.7r, 2.9a		  
 		 Buck Williams
6.5p, 5.6r, 0.6a		  
 

Los Angeles Lakers Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Nick Van Exel
14.8p, 2.8r, 8.7a		 Eddie Jones
17p, 4r, 3.5a		 Jerome Kersey
7p, 5r, 1.4a		 Elden Campbell
13.4p, 8.2r, 1.6a		 Travis Knight
5.3p, 4.7r, 0.6a
Rotation  
 		 Byron Scott
6.5p, 1.5r, 1.4a		 George McCloud
13.5p, 3.4r, 2.2a		  
 		 Sean Rooks
1.7p, 1.6r, 0.3a
Lim PT Derek Fisher
3.8p, 1r, 1.4a		 Kobe Bryant
6.6p, 1.9r, 1a		  
 		  
 		  
 

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