Through two rounds, the NBA Playoffs remain on fire for ABC, ESPN, and TNT.
The league announced on Tuesday that through the first two rounds, viewership was at a 12-year high across the three networks.
NBA Playoff Viewership Highlights:
🏀 Lakers-Warriors Series Averages 7.8M Viewers (27-Year High for Conference Semifinals)
🏀 Celtics-76ers Game 7 on ABC Averages 8.4M Viewers (Most-Watched CSF G7 in 15 Years)
🏀 NBA Playoffs Across ABC, ESPN and TNT: Most-Watched in 12 Years pic.twitter.com/WhpYb6IXJd
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) May 16, 2023
In a press release, ESPN touted its viewership for the first two rounds. Disney is averaging 5.226 million viewers over 27 games thus far, the most-watched first two rounds ever for the company.
Per Sports Media Watch, TNT’s average for the first two rounds is 4.1 million.
The release also notes that Sunday’s Celtics-76ers Game 7 averaged 8.44 million viewers, the most-watched Conference Semifinals game on ABC in 12 years. It was also the most-watched Conference Semifinals Game 7 on any network in 15 years. It’s the third most-watched game of these playoffs, behind Game 7 of Warriors-Kings and Game 6 of Lakers-Warriors.
As previously discussed, the Lakers-Warriors series was a huge win for the league. The series averaged 7.8 million viewers over ABC, ESPN, and TNT, the most-watched Conference Semifinals series in 27 years.
The Conference Finals begin Tuesday. ESPN has the Nuggets-Lakers series in the West, while TNT has the Celtics-Heat series in the East.
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