| Box Score | ||||||||||||||||
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| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Paul Pressey | 31 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| PG | Norm Nixon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SG | Joe Dumars | 21 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| SG | Ricky Pierce | 36 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19 |
| SF | Kelly Tripucka | 39 | 14 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 34 |
| SF | Rod Higgins | 25 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| C | Robert Parish | 41 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 23 |
| C | Herb Williams | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| C | Sam Bowie | 17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| SF | Walter Berry | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| SG | Kelvin Upshaw | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | James Edwards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Pistons | 0 | 41 | 84 | 22 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 50 | 17 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 23 | 107 | |
| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Darrell Walker | 30 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| PG | Sam Vincent | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| SG | Clyde Drexler | 39 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 |
| SG | Otis Smith | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SF | Armon Gilliam | 37 | 9 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| SF | Alex English | 19 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| PF | A.C. Green | 38 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 26 |
| PF | Jim Rowinski | 23 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| C | Charles Shacklef | 24 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| PG | Ennis Whatley | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| SF | Adrian Branch | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| PF | Jack Haley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Celtics | 0 | 46 | 100 | 18 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 54 | 22 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 19 | 111 | |
| team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | |||||||||||
| Pistons (40 - 39) | 32 | 22 | 25 | 28 | 0 | 107 | ||||||||||
| Celtics (37 - 40) | 34 | 30 | 25 | 22 | 0 | 111 | ||||||||||
| ATTENDANCE: 17378 | ||||||||||||||||
| CAPACITY: 18624 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ennis Whatley 6 game injury |