{"id":64741,"date":"2025-05-29T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/64741\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:07:10","slug":"multi-year-highs-continue-for-pacers-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/64741\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-year highs continue for Pacers-Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With potentially just one game left in the series, Pacers-Knicks continues to deliver some of the largest Eastern Conference Finals audiences since the era of the LeBron James Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s Knicks-Pacers NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/programminginsider.com\/sunday-ratings-indianapolis-500-race-grows-to-its-largest-audience-in-17-years-with-fox-network-debut\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=sunday-ratings-indianapolis-500-race-grows-to-its-largest-audience-in-17-years-with-fox-network-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">averaged a 3.2 rating<\/a> and 7.1 million viewers across TNT and truTV, marking the largest audience in a decade for Game 3 of the East Finals \u2014 since Hawks-Cavaliers on TNT in 2015 (7.76M) \u2014 and the second-largest of the playoffs. (Lakers-Timberwolves Game 4 in the first round still holds the top spot with 7.35 million on ABC.)<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 on Tuesday night averaged 6.7 million, marking the largest audience for an ECF Game 4 since Celtics-Cavaliers in 2018 (7.94M). Each game of the series has hit at least a seven-year high for an East Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Pacers-Knicks accounts for three of the four largest audiences this postseason, and TNT Sports \u2014 airing the NBA for the final time \u2014 owns four of the top six and five of the top eight.<\/p>\n<p>Viewership increased nine and one percent respectively from Games 3 and 4 of last year\u2019s Celtics-Pacers ECF on ESPN\/ABC (6.48 and 6.63 million). Nielsen\u2019s recent expansion of out-of-home viewing may account for some or even all of that growth, as the household rating for Game 3 was actually down slightly from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last year\u2019s TNT Sports conference final, viewership for both games declined two percent from Games 3 and 4 of the Timberwolves-Mavericks WCF (7.25 and 6.87 million respectively).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With potentially just one game left in the series, Pacers-Knicks continues to deliver some of the largest Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,2525,6,1278,2530,353,1136,191,3810,3806,2532],"class_list":{"0":"post-64741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-knicks-tv-ratings","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-on-tnt","13":"tag-nba-playoff-ratings","14":"tag-nba-ratings","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-pacers-tv-ratings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114593401673049109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}