Nba Final Last Year

This is a list of television ratings for nba finals in the united states based on nielsen viewing data.

Nba final last year. 1946 47 to 2018 19. It was the last nba finals played in the 2 2 1 1 1 format until 2014. Year by year champions this is the complete list with all the nba champions year by year.

That 7 6 million viewer slide is almost identical to the. The number is down 45 percent from last year s game 1 between the golden state warriors and toronto raptors. The last year a sweep did not occur in the playoffs was 1976.

It also includes finals results runner up and mvps. The lowest recorded since the association started keeping track back in 1994. Looking back at every season from the league s inception in 1946 to today.

The los angeles clippers made the playoffs for the first time since 2017 featuring a roster without blake griffin chris paul or deandre jordan. A trend of low ratings throughout the nba postseason has now reached the nba finals. Game 6 of the 1998 bulls jazz series ranks as the highest rated 22 3 and most watched 35 89m nba game on record.

Click on a specific year below for a complete season recap. About 76 2 million people were watching tv on the first five nights of the nba finals this year a 9 decline from the same games in 2019. The national basketball association nba finals is the championship series for the nba and the conclusion of its postseason all finals have been played in a best of seven format and are contested between the winners of the eastern conference and the western conference formerly divisions before 1970 except in 1950 when the eastern division champion faced the winner between the western and.

The 1998 series is also the highest rated nba finals on average with an 18 7 and 29 0 million over six games. The highest rated and most watched nba finals series was the 1998 nba finals between the chicago bulls and utah jazz which averaged an 18 7 rating 33 share and 29 04 million viewers on nbc that series also featured the highest rated and most watched nba finals game as the sunday night. In the 1985 nba finals the lakers made amends for their previous eight losses to the celtics by defeating them in six games.