Yall said no one is watching this "boring" series. The casuals seemed to love watching these "small-market" teams. The small market Heat had the 6 highest rated games of this playoffs
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Monday’s Heat-Nuggets NBA Finals Game 5 averaged 13.08 million viewers on ABC, edging Celtics-Warriors last year (13.03M) as the most-watched Game 5 of the Finals in four years — since Warriors-Raptors in 2019 (18.60M). Ratings were not immediately available.
(Keep in mind that the two other game fives over that span aired months out-of-season due to COVID-related scheduling adjustments; Bucks-Suns averaged 10.02 million on a Saturday night in July 2021 and Heat-Lakers 9.19 million in a fanless “bubble” in October 2020.)
Denver’s title-clinching win, which peaked with 17.83 million viewers, trails only last year’s Warriors-Celtics Game 6 (13.99M) as the most-watched NBA game since the league returned from hiatus in July 2020.
As goes without saying, Game 5 delivered the largest audience of the NBA season, topping the previous high of 12 million for Heat-Celtics Game 7 on TNT in the Eastern Conference Finals. By virtue of making the Finals and playing a seven-game conference final, Miami played in the six most-watched games this season and seven of the top eight.
NBA Finals low, but finale (and playoffs) hit high
The Denver Nuggets' championship coronation was the NBA's most-watched Game 5 of the Finals in four years.
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Monday’s Heat-Nuggets NBA Finals Game 5 averaged 13.08 million viewers on ABC, edging Celtics-Warriors last year (13.03M) as the most-watched Game 5 of the Finals in four years — since Warriors-Raptors in 2019 (18.60M). Ratings were not immediately available.
(Keep in mind that the two other game fives over that span aired months out-of-season due to COVID-related scheduling adjustments; Bucks-Suns averaged 10.02 million on a Saturday night in July 2021 and Heat-Lakers 9.19 million in a fanless “bubble” in October 2020.)
Denver’s title-clinching win, which peaked with 17.83 million viewers, trails only last year’s Warriors-Celtics Game 6 (13.99M) as the most-watched NBA game since the league returned from hiatus in July 2020.
As goes without saying, Game 5 delivered the largest audience of the NBA season, topping the previous high of 12 million for Heat-Celtics Game 7 on TNT in the Eastern Conference Finals. By virtue of making the Finals and playing a seven-game conference final, Miami played in the six most-watched games this season and seven of the top eight.
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