Breitbart: NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Crash by 68%, Least Watched Finals Game in HistoryAll players, coaches and refs take a knee and lock arms during the national anthem before the Lakers-Clippers game. pic.twitter.com/eZ9RHE3eh7
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 31, 2020
Both Game 1 and Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the L.A. Lakers and the Miami Heat have suffered the worst ratings crash in the league’s entire TV broadcast history.
Despite the matchup including two of the league’s biggest stars (LeBron James and Anthony Davis), Game 1 of the Finals on Wednesday was a huge ratings disappointment for the NBA.
Game 1 averaged only a 4.1 rating and 7.41 million viewers on ABC, “comfortably the lowest rated and least-watched NBA Finals game on record (dates back to 1988),” Sports Media Watch reported.
But if the league thought things might improve for Game 2, it had a bitter pill to swallow because the second in the series did even worse than the first.
Game 2 cratered with just 4.5 million viewers and a dismal 1. 9 in the ratings. This embarrassing showing was down 68 percent over Game 2 in 2019.
The 2020 Game 2 event now rates as the lowest ratings ever for an NBA Finals game. Until Friday, Wednesday’s Game 1 was the lowest-rated in league history. So, it seems the Finals keep going down.
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WNU Editor: The last thing that I want to watch at a sports game is politics or a sport thrashing my views. But that is what American sports has become today. Speaking for myself. This is the first year in almost 25 years that I did not even bother to watch one NHL Stanley Games playoff. I totally ignored baseball. I have no clue on what is happening in the NFL. And as for the NBA. I was not aware that they are playing their finals until I read this Breitbart post this evening. Sighhh .... thank God for soccer.
