Despite the match scenario, Hearings still don't follow on the occasion of these 2025 end NBA between the Thunder and Pacers. Game 3 has only attracted 9.19 million American viewers ahead of ABC, a drop of 20% compared to Game 3 from last year between Celtics and Mavericks (11.43 million).
On the NBA side, we put forward that there were still 11.54 million people in front of their small screen to follow the end of the match, a record peak since the start of these finals. Despite everything, it remains the lowest score (excluding COVID) recorded by a Game 3 since Nielsen has recorded the audiences, since 1988 …
The big league nevertheless recalls That the first three games of the finals have been the most followed TV program since the first week of May, and that they have generated more than 1.5 billion views on social networks.
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“This is an interesting period in society. We have two markets, in Oklahoma City and Indianapolis, which are completely immersed in the finals. All the stories, everyone, everyone in the street has the colors of the teams … I have been doing this for a long time and I do not have the memory of two markets where the matches (of the finals) were so dominant ” explained Adam Silver upstream of Game 3.
Except that outside of these two (small) markets, these 2025 finals do not fascinate American viewers.
“In the media, we compare twenty years back. On Game 1 and 2, we are the most watched program in May/June on television and if we are beaten, it's another sports program. Twenty years ago, we were often beaten by other programs on the evening of the finals! Global audiences are at a historically low level. The world is changing, there are so many options today ” put the “commissioner” into perspective.
