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Celtics-Mavericks tops only COVID-era NBA Finals as least-watched since ’07
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:08 pm
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The five-game Celtics-Mavericks NBA Finals averaged a 5.8 rating and 11.31 million viewers on ABC (including an ESPN simulcast of Game 3), down 5% in ratings and 3% in viewership from a five-game Nuggets-Heat series last year (6.1, 11.64M) and the lowest rated and least-watched Finals since the COVID-delayed Bucks-Suns series in July 2021 (5.2, 10.15M).
Excluding the two COVID-altered series — Bucks-Suns in ’21 and Lakers-Heat in the 2020 “bubble” (4.0, 7.66M) — this year’s Finals ranks as the lowest rated on record and least-watched since 2007 (Spurs-Cavaliers: 9.29M).
Monday’s clinching Game 5 averaged a 6.3 rating and 12.22 million on ABC, down 9% in ratings and 7% in viewership from last year’s Game 5 clincher (7.0, 13.08M) and the least-watched Finals Game 5 since Bucks-Suns on a July Saturday in ’21 (10.02M).
The Celtics’ coronation, which peaked with 13.28 million viewers, delivered the highest rating of the NBA season and second-largest audience. Game 2 holds the top spot in viewership with 12.31 million. This year marks only the second time since 2007 that no game of the Finals managed to 12.5 million, joining Lakers-Heat in the 2020 “bubble.”
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Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:10 pm to Bench McElroy
Blowouts tend to do that.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:15 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Pro sports are so boring today. Mix in the politics of it all, lack of parody, the crazy prices it cost to go to a game, and this is the result.
College sports (semi pro now) is not too far behind.
Better shite to do with my free time. Actually, not really.. can't afford to do anything anymore. Guess I'll stare at the wall.
College sports (semi pro now) is not too far behind.
Better shite to do with my free time. Actually, not really.. can't afford to do anything anymore. Guess I'll stare at the wall.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:20 pm to BearCrocs
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lack of parody
Ah
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:20 pm to BearCrocs
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lack of parody
Talladega Nights 2 would help NASCAR.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:24 pm to BearCrocs
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lack of parody
Your mom and I are deeply disappointed.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:30 pm to Bench McElroy
ESPN spending all day before game 1 hyping the bullshite Hurley to the Lakers story more than the Finals didn't set a good tone.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:37 pm to Bench McElroy
NBA has to come up with a solution for these blowouts. A team starts 2-15 from the 3-Pt line, goes down 20 pts, and mail it in. Doesn't matter if it's regular season or playoffs.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:38 pm to BearCrocs
NBA has had six different champs over the last six years.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:38 pm to ChairmanOfThisBoard
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A team starts 2-15 from the 3-Pt line, goes down 20 pts, and mail it in. Doesn't matter if it's regular season or playoffs.
Huh?
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:39 pm to Bench McElroy
NBA players are boring as frick.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:43 pm to Bench McElroy
The ratings discourse is beyond stupid.
One, the NBA is about to sign a massive new TV deal, so the ratings must not be that awful.
Two, I guarantee not one Celtics fan cares about the ratings for the series.
Three, do these figures include people who were watching the game on YouTube? YouTube is a major sponsor of the finals.
One, the NBA is about to sign a massive new TV deal, so the ratings must not be that awful.
Two, I guarantee not one Celtics fan cares about the ratings for the series.
Three, do these figures include people who were watching the game on YouTube? YouTube is a major sponsor of the finals.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:44 pm to Black n Gold
Maybe quit starting games at 8:30 in one of the teams’ market would help some. Even at 7:30 start in the central time zone the game doesn’t get over until well past 10:30.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:44 pm to ChairmanOfThisBoard
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goes down 20 pts, and mail it in.
Know how I know you didn’t watch the playoffs?
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:45 pm to Bench McElroy
The most dominant team in the NBA all year against a 5 seed. It was over before it started. They threw game 4 just to win it in front of their fans.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:51 pm to Black n Gold
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NBA players are boring as frick.
Correct. All AAU clones, talk nonsense, bang phat arse instathot prostitutes and that's it.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:53 pm to tiggerthetooth
I can’t think of a single top player that behaves this way right now
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:57 pm to NawlinsTiger9
Players in the old days never banged thots and got HIV.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:58 pm to saintsfan22
That, too 
I think that guy used to root for Harden-era Houston, so maybe that’s why he’s confused
I think that guy used to root for Harden-era Houston, so maybe that’s why he’s confused
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:07 pm to Black n Gold
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NBA players are boring as frick.
And all this opponent hugging before and after the game, "we going to the club dog?". Shite, the WNBA has more competitive spirit these days which is pathetic.
And how many times can you watch a step back 3 in the NBA? Just like how many times can you watch a missed layup in the WNBA?
Same boredom creeps in.
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