March 2, 1997
| | Scoring |
|---|
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|
| ATL | 20 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 75 |
| DET | 21 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 82 |
| Pace | eFG% | TOV% | ORB% | FT/FGA | ORtg |
|---|
| ATL | 75.1 | .453 | 12.2 | 32.5 | .108 | 99.9 |
| DET | 75.1 | .466 | 9.0 | 28.6 | .192 | 109.3 |
| Player | MP | TS% | eFG% | ORB% | DRB% | TRB% | AST% | STL% | BLK% | TOV% | USG% | ORtg | DRtg |
|---|
| Steve Smith | 45:00 | .731 | .731 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 23.5 | 20.1 | 107 | 115 |
| Christian Laettner | 43:00 | .573 | .529 | 14.0 | 19.1 | 16.4 | 26.6 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 23.9 | 129 | 106 |
| Dikembe Mutombo | 43:00 | .491 | .471 | 8.4 | 28.7 | 17.9 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 22.7 | 113 | 100 |
| Mookie Blaylock | 43:00 | .288 | .269 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 32.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 17.8 | 20.9 | 80 | 111 |
| Tyrone Corbin | 31:00 | .510 | .500 | 3.9 | 8.8 | 6.2 | 16.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.1 | 128 | 116 |
| Reserves | MP | TS% | eFG% | ORB% | DRB% | TRB% | AST% | STL% | BLK% | TOV% | USG% | ORtg | DRtg |
|---|
| Henry James | 14:00 | .000 | .000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 7.6 | 0 | 119 |
| Jon Barry | 11:00 | .200 | .200 | 10.9 | 37.4 | 23.3 | 32.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.6 | 33.8 | 51 | 106 |
| Alan Henderson | 10:00 | .129 | .000 | 0.0 | 13.7 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.6 | 34 | 114 |
| Team Totals | 240 | .473 | .453 | 32.5 | 71.4 | 50.7 | 74.2 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 12.2 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 109.3 |
| Player | PTS | TRB | AST | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | ORB | DRB | STL | BLK | TOV | PF |
|---|
| Joe Dumars | 22 | 7 | 4 | 44:00 | 7 | 14 | .500 | 3 | 6 | .500 | 5 | 5 | 1.000 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Otis Thorpe | 11 | 12 | 0 | 43:00 | 4 | 9 | .444 | 0 | 0 | | 3 | 4 | .750 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Lindsey Hunter | 10 | 2 | 2 | 43:00 | 5 | 12 | .417 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grant Hill | 23 | 7 | 10 | 42:00 | 9 | 19 | .474 | 0 | 0 | | 5 | 7 | .714 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Theo Ratliff | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16:00 | 3 | 5 | .600 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Reserves | PTS | TRB | AST | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | ORB | DRB | STL | BLK | TOV | PF |
|---|
| Terry Mills | 3 | 7 | 1 | 30:00 | 1 | 7 | .143 | 1 | 7 | .143 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Aaron McKie | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12:00 | 1 | 3 | .333 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grant Long | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6:00 | 2 | 4 | .500 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Michael Curry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4:00 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 82 | 37 | 18 | 240 | 32 | 73 | .438 | 4 | 17 | .235 | 14 | 17 | .824 | 10 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 15 |
| Player | MP | TS% | eFG% | ORB% | DRB% | TRB% | AST% | STL% | BLK% | TOV% | USG% | ORtg | DRtg |
|---|
| Joe Dumars | 44:00 | .679 | .607 | 0.0 | 19.1 | 10.2 | 17.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.6 | 23.7 | 122 | 102 |
| Otis Thorpe | 43:00 | .511 | .444 | 19.1 | 16.7 | 17.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 13.6 | 130 | 102 |
| Lindsey Hunter | 43:00 | .417 | .417 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.1 | 100 | 110 |
| Grant Hill | 42:00 | .521 | .474 | 3.3 | 17.1 | 10.7 | 52.6 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 12.0 | 32.4 | 112 | 94 |
| Theo Ratliff | 16:00 | .643 | .600 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.9 | 15.5 | 21.8 | 107 | 101 |
| Reserves | MP | TS% | eFG% | ORB% | DRB% | TRB% | AST% | STL% | BLK% | TOV% | USG% | ORtg | DRtg |
|---|
| Terry Mills | 30:00 | .214 | .214 | 9.1 | 20.0 | 14.9 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.7 | 74 | 97 |
| Aaron McKie | 12:00 | .333 | .333 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.6 | 75 | 84 |
| Grant Long | 6:00 | .500 | .500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 20.0 | 45.2 | 86 | 88 |
| Michael Curry | 4:00 | | | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | 0.0 | | 111 |
| Team Totals | 240 | .509 | .466 | 28.6 | 67.5 | 49.3 | 56.3 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 100.0 | 109.3 | 99.9 |
Officials: Ed T. Rush, Ted Bernhardt, Scott Wall
Attendance: 21,454