| Box Score | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Mike Bibby | 33 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| PG | Bobby Jackson | 30 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| SG | Michael Finley | 40 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| SG | Fred Hoiberg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SF | Lamar Odom | 37 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| SF | Ed O'Bannon | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| PF | Kenyon Martin | 16 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| PF | Brian Scalabrine | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| C | Erick Dampier | 41 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23 |
| C | Jerome James | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| PG | Jason Hart | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | Jim McIlvaine | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hornets | 0 | 35 | 82 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 46 | 27 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 87 | |
| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Terrell Brandon | 31 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| PG | Damon Jones | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| SG | Latrell Sprewell | 38 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 24 |
| SG | Sasha Djordjevic | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| SF | Oscar Torres | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| PF | Vlad Radmanovic | 41 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| PF | Lari Ketner | 29 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| C | Shaquille O'Neal | 41 | 16 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 35 |
| C | Marc Jackson | 21 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| C | Chris Anstey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | Jake Voskuhl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Celtics | 0 | 45 | 95 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 54 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 106 | |
| team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | |||||||||||
| Hornets (25 - 40) | 21 | 28 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 87 | ||||||||||
| Celtics (51 - 16) | 31 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 0 | 106 | ||||||||||
| ATTENDANCE: 17628 | ||||||||||||||||
| CAPACITY: 18624 |