New York 121, Boston 114

May 6, 1990

Opening Round - New York wins 3-2

Boston Garden (Boston, Massachusetts)

Attendance: 14,890

Officials: Mike Mathis, Darell Garretson, Jake ODonnell

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

Technicals: New York (0) Boston (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
NYK (45-37) 24 26 37 34 121
BOS (52-30) 32 22 29 31 114

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
NYK 96 126.2 118.9
BOS 96 118.9 126.2

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
NYK .615 0.156 0.231 0.321
BOS .505 0.125 0.447 0.202

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 48:00 8-10 0-0 5-6 18.0 0 3 3 7 1 2 0 4 21
33 Patrick Ewing Starter C 47:00 14-26 1-1 2-2 25.2 2 6 8 10 4 0 4 4 31
34 Charles Oakley Starter PF 44:00 8-11 0-0 10-12 27.8 5 12 17 4 5 1 1 3 26
55 Kiki Vandeweghe Starter SF 14:00 2-4 0-0 0-0 0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4
21 Gerald Wilkins Starter SG 27:00 6-10 0-0 0-0 13.5 1 2 3 8 3 1 0 1 12
40 Stuart Gray Bench C 01:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Johnny Newman Bench SF 33:00 4-10 1-1 4-5 3.4 1 3 4 1 5 0 0 2 13
6 Trent Tucker Bench SG 22:00 4-6 2-3 4-4 10.8 0 3 3 1 3 1 0 0 14
7 Kenny Walker Bench PF 04:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 -1.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 46-78 4-5 25-29 116.6 9 30 39 31 23 5 6 15 121
          59.0% 80.0% 86.2%                    

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 46:00 11-25 1-4 8-9 21.1 4 5 9 5 3 1 1 1 31
3 Dennis Johnson Starter PG 39:00 10-20 1-3 0-0 16.5 1 4 5 10 5 1 0 2 21
35 Reggie Lewis Starter SG 41:00 8-13 0-1 3-7 19.4 2 3 5 9 3 3 0 2 19
32 Kevin McHale Starter PF 45:00 7-14 1-2 2-3 13.6 2 5 7 3 3 0 3 2 17
00 Robert Parish Starter C 41:00 10-15 0-0 2-2 22.2 6 3 9 3 4 2 3 2 22
5 John Bagley Bench PG 09:00 0-1 0-0 2-2 -0.5 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2
53 Joe Kleine Bench C 09:00 0-3 0-1 2-2 1.0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 2
4 Jim Paxson Bench SF 07:00 0-2 0-0 0-0 -1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
54 Ed Pinckney Bench PF 02:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0.2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
11 Michael Smith Bench C 01:00 0-1 0-1 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Team                                
        240 46-94 3-12 19-25 101.4 17 21 38 32 21 8 7 12 114
          48.9% 25.0% 76.0%                    

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		 Charles Oakley
14.6p, 11.9r, 2.4a		 Patrick Ewing
28.6p, 10.9r, 2.2a
Rotation  
 		 Trent Tucker
8.2p, 2.1r, 2.1a		 Johnny Newman
12.9p, 2.4r, 2.3a		  
 		  
 
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		 Kenny Walker
7.9p, 5r, 0.7a		 Stuart Gray
2p, 2.5r, 0.3a

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
Lim PT John Bagley
4.3p, 1.6r, 5.5a		  
 		 Jim Paxson
6.4p, 1.1r, 1.9a		 Ed Pinckney
4.7p, 2.9r, 0.9a		 Joe Kleine
5.4p, 4.4r, 0.6a
Lim PT  
 		  
 		  
 		  
 		 Michael Smith
5p, 1.5r, 1.2a

Today's Games

Boston Celtics 114
New York Knicks 121
Box Score

Utah Jazz 102
Phoenix Suns 104
Box Score