Chicago 97, Boston 87

December 3, 1997

Regular Season

TD Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 18,624

Officials: Rodney Mott, Bernie Fryer, Joe Borgia

Team Rebounds: Chicago (12) Boston (6)

Technicals: Chicago (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
CHI (10-7) 25 24 28 20 97
BOS (7-10) 18 20 22 27 87

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
CHI 94 103.2 92.6
BOS 94 92.6 103.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
CHI .513 0.255 0.280 0.267
BOS .392 0.160 0.477 0.151

Chicago Bulls

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
9 Ron Harper Starter PG 31:00 5-10 0-0 8-9 10.1 1 2 3 0 3 2 1 1 18
23 Michael Jordan Starter SG 40:00 11-21 1-3 6-8 18.0 4 5 9 5 2 2 1 7 29
7 Toni Kukoc Starter SF 35:00 7-14 0-1 1-2 16.5 3 5 8 11 4 1 2 6 15
13 Luc Longley Starter C 23:00 5-11 0-0 1-1 4.9 2 2 4 3 4 0 0 2 11
91 Dennis Rodman Starter PF 40:00 3-3 0-0 2-6 17.2 2 15 17 3 1 0 0 2 8
1 Randy Brown Bench PG 09:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
30 Jud Buechler Bench SF 15:00 2-3 0-1 0-0 5.5 0 3 3 0 1 3 0 1 4
24 Scott Burrell Bench SF 04:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
35 Jason Caffey Bench PF 13:00 0-3 0-0 2-2 -2.2 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 2
5 Rusty LaRue Bench SG 24:00 3-5 0-1 0-0 3.8 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 6
34 Bill Wennington Bench C 06:00 2-3 0-0 0-0 2.5 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 4
  Team                   12         1  
        240 38-75 1-6 20-28 115.2 14 36 62 25 20 10 5 25 97
          50.7% 16.7% 71.4%                    

Boston Celtics

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
20 Tyus Edney Starter PG 19:00 2-4 0-0 2-2 3.0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 3 6
29 Pervis Ellison Starter SF 14:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 3.8 4 1 5 0 1 0 0 1 2
0 Walter McCarty Starter C 26:00 1-9 1-1 4-4 3.2 2 4 6 3 1 0 1 4 7
5 Ron Mercer Starter SG 34:00 6-13 0-1 0-1 5.1 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 12
88 Antoine Walker Starter PF 40:00 8-24 2-7 1-4 5.5 6 6 12 1 5 0 0 3 19
13 Dana Barros Bench PG 16:00 3-9 0-2 0-0 6.2 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 6
4 Chauncey Billups Bench PG 14:00 3-8 2-4 1-1 6.6 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 9
12 Bruce Bowen Bench SF 30:00 6-11 1-2 3-4 14.5 3 1 4 1 5 5 1 0 16
7 Dee Brown Bench PG 09:00 1-3 1-2 0-0 -1.5 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 3
45 Andrew DeClercq Bench C 07:00 1-2 0-0 0-0 2.2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
40 Travis Knight Bench C 26:00 1-7 0-1 3-5 5.1 2 7 9 0 4 4 1 3 5
9 Greg Minor Bench SF 05:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Team                   6         1  
        240 33-93 7-20 14-21 76.6 21 23 50 14 24 15 3 16 87
          35.5% 35.0% 66.7%                    

Chicago Bulls Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Ron Harper
8.2p, 4.1r, 3.1a		 Michael Jordan
27.6p, 6.8r, 3.8a		 Toni Kukoc
13.1p, 4.4r, 4.2a		 Dennis Rodman
4.7p, 13r, 2a		 Luc Longley
11.7p, 6.4r, 2.4a
Rotation  
 		 Rusty LaRue
5.6p, 1.1r, 0.6a		 Jud Buechler
2.4p, 0.9r, 0.8a		 Jason Caffey
5.1p, 3.6r, 1.1a		  
 
Lim PT Randy Brown
5p, 1.1r, 2.3a		  
 		 Scott Burrell
2.7p, 2.1r, 0.6a		  
 		 Bill Wennington
4.3p, 2.3r, 0.3a

Boston Celtics Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Tyus Edney
7.8p, 1.8r, 3.6a		 Ron Mercer
13.8p, 3.7r, 1.9a		 Pervis Ellison
2.9p, 2.9r, 0.8a		 Antoine Walker
22p, 10.2r, 3.8a		 Walter McCarty
10.5p, 5.1r, 2.5a
Rotation Dana Barros
6.9p, 1.7r, 2.1a		  
 		 Bruce Bowen
7.2p, 2.5r, 1.4a		  
 		 Travis Knight
9.6p, 7.2r, 1.9a
Rotation Chauncey Billups
8.4p, 1.6r, 3.5a		  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 
Lim PT Dee Brown
7.2p, 1.6r, 1.6a		  
 		 Greg Minor
4.9p, 1.5r, 1.1a		  
 		 Andrew DeClercq
3.2p, 2.5r, 0.5a

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Chicago Bulls 97
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Miami Heat 94
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