1997-98 Cleveland Cavaliers Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 47-35
Finishing 5th in the NBA's Central Division of the Eastern Conference
Postseason: 1-3 Lost conference first round
Conference First Round - Lost to Indiana Pacers 3-1
Coach: Mike Fratello (47-35)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Attendance: 694,629, Avg. 16,942 in 41 home dates

1997-98 Cleveland Cavaliers Roster
1997-98 Cleveland Cavaliers Results

The Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association ended the 1997-98 season with a record of 47 wins and 35 losses, finishing fifth in the NBA's Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 1-3.

The Cavaliers tossed in 7,585 points and allowed 7,361. Shawn Kemp scored a team-best 1,442 points for Cleveland and contributed 745 rebounds. Brevin Knight dished out 656 assists for the squad.

On the defensive side of the ball, Brevin Knight added 196 steals, while Zydrunas Ilgauskas rejected 135 opposing shots.

Mike Fratello coached the team. The 1997-98 Cleveland Cavaliers lost in the conference first round.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Shawn Kemp	F-C	80	80	2769	1164	518	8	2	556	404	219	526	745	197	108	90	271	310	1442
Wesley Person	G	82	82	3198	957	440	447	192	170	132	65	298	363	188	129	49	110	108	1204
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	82	81	2379	876	454	4	1	302	230	279	444	723	71	52	135	146	288	1139
Cedric Henderson	F	82	71	2527	725	348	4	0	190	136	71	254	325	168	96	45	165	238	832
Derek Anderson	G	66	13	1839	586	239	84	17	315	275	55	132	187	227	86	13	128	136	770
Brevin Knight	G	80	76	2483	592	261	7	0	251	201	67	186	253	656	196	18	194	271	723
Vitaly Potapenko	C-F	80	0	1412	488	234	1	0	144	102	110	203	313	57	27	28	132	198	570
Danny Ferry	F	69	3	1034	286	113	99	33	40	32	23	91	114	59	26	17	53	118	291
Bob Sura	G	46	4	942	231	87	60	19	131	74	25	69	94	171	44	7	93	113	267
Henry James	F	28	0	166	59	24	25	11	22	21	2	13	15	5	1	1	12	24	80
Scott Brooks	G	43	0	312	66	28	11	5	20	18	6	24	30	49	18	3	12	25	79
Carl Thomas	G	29	0	272	70	27	38	15	13	8	6	31	37	9	16	5	12	27	77
Shawnelle Scott	C	41	0	188	36	16	0	0	18	12	20	39	59	8	6	8	10	45	44
Mitchell Butler	G-F	18	0	206	47	15	6	1	10	6	6	16	22	18	8	0	8	26	37
Greg Graham	G	6	0	56	12	7	3	0	2	2	0	1	1	6	1	0	10	7	16
Tony Dumas	G	7	0	47	12	6	4	2	3	0	1	4	5	5	0	0	5	5	14
Totals		839	410	19830	6207	2817	801	298	2187	1653	955	2331	3286	1894	814	419	1361	1939	7585

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Shawn Kemp	F-C	80	80	34.6	44.5	25.0	72.7	2.7	6.6	9.3	2.5	1.4	1.1	3.4	3.9	18.0
Wesley Person	G	82	82	39.0	46.0	43.0	77.6	0.8	3.6	4.4	2.3	1.6	0.6	1.3	1.3	14.7
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	82	81	29.0	51.8	25.0	76.2	3.4	5.4	8.8	0.9	0.6	1.6	1.8	3.5	13.9
Cedric Henderson	F	82	71	30.8	48.0	0.0	71.6	0.9	3.1	4.0	2.0	1.2	0.5	2.0	2.9	10.1
Derek Anderson	G	66	13	27.9	40.8	20.2	87.3	0.8	2.0	2.8	3.4	1.3	0.2	1.9	2.1	11.7
Brevin Knight	G	80	76	31.0	44.1	0.0	80.1	0.8	2.3	3.2	8.2	2.5	0.2	2.4	3.4	9.0
Vitaly Potapenko	C-F	80	0	17.7	48.0	0.0	70.8	1.4	2.5	3.9	0.7	0.3	0.4	1.7	2.5	7.1
Danny Ferry	F	69	3	15.0	39.5	33.3	80.0	0.3	1.3	1.7	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.8	1.7	4.2
Bob Sura	G	46	4	20.5	37.7	31.7	56.5	0.5	1.5	2.0	3.7	1.0	0.2	2.0	2.5	5.8
Henry James	F	28	0	5.9	40.7	44.0	95.5	0.1	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.9	2.9
Scott Brooks	G	43	0	7.3	42.4	45.5	90.0	0.1	0.6	0.7	1.1	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.6	1.8
Carl Thomas	G	29	0	9.4	38.6	39.5	61.5	0.2	1.1	1.3	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.7
Shawnelle Scott	C	41	0	4.6	44.4		66.7	0.5	1.0	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	1.1	1.1
Mitchell Butler	G-F	18	0	11.4	31.9	16.7	60.0	0.3	0.9	1.2	1.0	0.4	0.0	0.4	1.4	2.1
Greg Graham	G	6	0	9.3	58.3	0.0	100.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.0	0.2	0.0	1.7	1.2	2.7
Tony Dumas	G	7	0	6.7	50.0	50.0	0.0	0.1	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.7	2.0
Averages		839	410	23.6	45.4	37.2	75.6	1.1	2.8	3.9	2.3	1.0	0.5	1.6	2.3	9.0

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Shawn Kemp	F-C	4	152	71	33	0	0	45	38	16	25	41	8	5	4	16	12	104
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	4	147	49	28	0	0	25	13	14	16	30	2	2	5	10	22	69
Derek Anderson	G	4	103	22	10	0	0	26	23	0	9	9	11	5	1	12	10	43
Wesley Person	G	4	136	29	11	19	7	4	3	2	7	9	10	3	0	1	5	32
Cedric Henderson	F	4	157	28	11	1	0	13	8	4	13	17	11	6	0	13	14	30
Brevin Knight	G	4	132	21	6	0	0	10	6	0	16	16	23	10	1	8	16	18
Vitaly Potapenko	C-F	4	70	15	6	0	0	10	5	3	8	11	3	2	0	6	8	17
Bob Sura	G	3	31	5	1	2	0	3	2	0	3	3	4	1	0	2	4	4
Carl Thomas	G	1	11	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
Shawnelle Scott	C	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
Scott Brooks	G	1	8	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
Danny Ferry	F	3	10	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Totals		37	960	246	107	24	7	141	102	40	98	138	74	34	12	69	95	323

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Shawn Kemp	F-C	4	38.0	46.5		84.4	4.0	6.3	10.3	2.0	1.3	1.0	4.0	3.0	26.0
Zydrunas Ilgauskas	C	4	36.8	57.1		52.0	3.5	4.0	7.5	0.5	0.5	1.3	2.5	5.5	17.3
Derek Anderson	G	4	25.8	45.5		88.5	0.0	2.3	2.3	2.8	1.3	0.3	3.0	2.5	10.8
Wesley Person	G	4	34.0	37.9	36.8	75.0	0.5	1.8	2.3	2.5	0.8	0.0	0.3	1.3	8.0
Cedric Henderson	F	4	39.3	39.3	0.0	61.5	1.0	3.3	4.3	2.8	1.5	0.0	3.3	3.5	7.5
Brevin Knight	G	4	33.0	28.6		60.0	0.0	4.0	4.0	5.8	2.5	0.3	2.0	4.0	4.5
Vitaly Potapenko	C-F	4	17.5	40.0		50.0	0.8	2.0	2.8	0.8	0.5	0.0	1.5	2.0	4.3
Bob Sura	G	3	10.3	20.0	0.0	66.7	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.3	0.3	0.0	0.7	1.3	1.3
Carl Thomas	G	1	11.0	0.0		66.7	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	2.0
Shawnelle Scott	C	1	3.0	50.0			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	2.0
Scott Brooks	G	1	8.0	0.0		100.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0
Danny Ferry	F	3	3.3	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
Averages		839	25.9	43.5	29.2	72.3	1.1	2.6	3.7	2.0	0.9	0.3	1.9	2.6	8.7