New York 105, Boston 116

April 26, 1990

Opening Round - New York wins 3-2

Boston Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 14,890

Officials: Lee Jones, Jess Kersey, Jack Madden

Team Rebounds: New York (0) Boston (0)

Technicals: New York (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NYK (45-37) 30 29 21 25 105
BOS (52-30) 28 29 31 28 116

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 94 111.7 123.4
BOS 94 123.4 111.7

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .519 0.149 0.333 0.275
BOS .570 0.160 0.279 0.329

New York Knicks

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
1 Mo Cheeks Starter PG 33:00 4-10 0-1 3-4 12.0 1 2 3 9 3 3 0 3 11
33 Patrick Ewing Starter C 42:00 9-14 0-0 4-10 12.8 3 6 9 1 5 1 2 4 22
55 Kiki Vandeweghe Starter SF 34:00 5-14 0-1 0-0 2.8 1 3 4 1 2 0 0 0 10
7 Kenny Walker Starter PF 23:00 3-5 0-1 1-4 3.5 1 1 2 1 4 0 1 0 7
21 Gerald Wilkins Starter SG 24:00 5-12 1-1 3-3 8.9 1 4 5 5 4 0 0 2 14
31 Mark Jackson Bench PG 15:00 0-2 0-0 2-2 2.5 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 2 2
4 Johnny Newman Bench SF 23:00 7-8 1-1 6-7 13.9 1 2 3 2 6 1 0 1 21
34 Charles Oakley Bench PF 16:00 2-5 1-1 3-5 5.1 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 0 8
6 Trent Tucker Bench SG 23:00 4-9 2-5 0-0 8.2 1 0 1 4 0 1 0 1 10
45 Eddie Lee Wilkins Bench C 07:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  Team                                
        240 39-80 5-11 22-35 87.9 10 20 30 27 26 7 4 14 105
          48.8% 45.5% 62.9%                    

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
33 Larry Bird Starter SF 40:00 10-19 2-5 2-2 29.8 3 15 18 10 1 1 0 4 24
3 Dennis Johnson Starter PG 31:00 5-12 0-0 4-4 10.0 0 2 2 6 6 1 2 1 14
35 Reggie Lewis Starter SG 44:00 7-13 0-0 8-8 17.5 1 1 2 5 1 3 1 2 22
32 Kevin McHale Starter PF 36:00 9-14 0-0 3-4 13.5 3 6 9 3 4 0 1 5 21
00 Robert Parish Starter C 38:00 7-13 0-0 4-4 14.8 4 6 10 2 5 1 0 1 18
5 John Bagley Bench PG 17:00 2-2 0-0 1-1 4.6 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 2 5
34 Kevin Gamble Bench SF 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
53 Joe Kleine Bench C 14:00 3-3 0-0 0-0 5.5 1 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 6
4 Jim Paxson Bench SG 13:00 1-3 0-1 0-0 1.8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
54 Ed Pinckney Bench PF 03:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
11 Michael Smith Bench C 02:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
13 Charles Edward Smith Bench PG 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 44-79 2-6 26-27 121.9 12 31 43 32 22 8 4 15 116
          55.7% 33.3% 96.3%                    

New York Knicks Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Mo Cheeks
9.7p, 3r, 5.6a		 Gerald Wilkins
14.5p, 4.5r, 4a		 Kiki Vandeweghe
11.7p, 2.4r, 1.9a		 Kenny Walker
7.9p, 5r, 0.7a		 Patrick Ewing
28.6p, 10.9r, 2.2a
Rotation Mark Jackson
9.9p, 3.9r, 7.4a		 Trent Tucker
8.2p, 2.1r, 2.1a		 Johnny Newman
12.9p, 2.4r, 2.3a		 Charles Oakley
14.6p, 11.9r, 2.4a		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Eddie Lee Wilkins
4.7p, 3.4r, 0.2a

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Dennis Johnson
7.1p, 2.7r, 6.5a		 Reggie Lewis
17p, 4.4r, 2.8a		 Larry Bird
24.3p, 9.5r, 7.5a		 Kevin McHale
20.9p, 8.3r, 2.1a		 Robert Parish
15.7p, 10.1r, 1.3a
Rotation John Bagley
4.3p, 1.6r, 5.5a		 Jim Paxson
6.4p, 1.1r, 1.9a		  
 		  
 		 Joe Kleine
5.4p, 4.4r, 0.6a
Lim PT Charles Edward Smith
2.9p, 1.2r, 1.7a		  
 		 Kevin Gamble
5.1p, 1.6r, 1.7a		 Ed Pinckney
4.7p, 2.9r, 0.9a		 Michael Smith
5p, 1.5r, 1.2a

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