The NBA Eastern Conference Finals hit another seven-year high as the Knicks ensured at least a sixth game.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s Pacers-Knicks NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 5 averaged 6.72 million viewers across TNT and truTV, marking the most-watched Game 5 of the ECF since Cavaliers-Celtics in 2018 (7.51M). Regardless of conference, it was the most-watched Game 5 at this point of the postseason since Mavericks-Warriors three years ago (6.79M).<\/p>\n
Compared to last year\u2019s lone conference final Game 5, Mavericks-Timberwolves in the West, viewership increased 7% from 6.26 million.<\/p>\n
For the NBA season, only Game 3 on Sunday (7.09M), Lakers-Timberwolves Game 4 in the first round (7.35M) and Lakers-Warriors on Christmas Day (7.91M) averaged a larger audience. The Pacers-Knicks series accounts for four of the season\u2019s top seven audiences.<\/p>\n
Entering Saturday\u2019s Game 6, Pacers-Knicks is averaging 6.74 million viewers \u2014 up 7% from last year\u2019s four-game Celtics-Pacers series (6.31M) and the most-watched ECF through five games since Cavaliers-Celtics. Viewership is even compared to last year\u2019s TNT Sports conference final, the five-game Mavericks-Timberwolves.<\/p>\n
All five games of the Pacers-Knicks series have been the most-watched of the ECF in at least seven years, with Game 3 the most-watched in ten. For that trend to continue, Game 6 will need to surpass the 8.71 million who tuned into the Celtics\u2019 buzzer-beating, series-tying win over the Heat two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA Eastern Conference Finals hit another seven-year high as the Knicks ensured at least a sixth game.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2525,6,1278,2530,11,353,2532],"class_list":{"0":"post-67646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks-tv-ratings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-on-tnt","12":"tag-nba-playoff-ratings","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-ratings","15":"tag-pacers-tv-ratings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114601006404031643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646","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=67646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}