 | align="left" | || 5 || 5 || 40.6 || .549 || || .808 || 13.6 || 3.2 || 0.6 || 4.6 || 33.4
| align="left" | || 6 || 6 || 40.7 || .522 || .250 || .708 || 7.0 || 5.0 || 2.0 || 2.3 || 25.5 
The series-deciding Game 6 became the most notorious example of CBS's practice of showing even the most important NBA games on "tape delay" broadcasts.Because May 16, 1980, was a Friday, the network did not want to preempt two of its highest-rated shows, "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Dallas", even though both shows were already in reruns