The Dallas Mavericks failed to show up in Game 1 of the NBA Finals — and so did the viewers. Thursday’s Mavericks-Celtics NBA Finals Game 1 averaged a 5.7 rating and 10.99 million viewers on ...

Despite two of the NBA's top stars going head-to-head in this year's NBA Finals, the viewership numbers were not reflecting that for Game 1. According to a report by Front Office Sports, NBA ...

Game 1 of the NBA Finals has passed and the viewership numbers are in. According to ESPN and the NBA, Thursday’s night showdown between the Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics averaged 11 ...

The Boston Celtics kept the Dallas Mavericks at arm’s length in Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals, and viewers did not stick around in the hope of a Dallas comeback. Per Sports Media Watch, 11.04 ...

The 2024 NBA Finals are off to an inauspicious start, both in terms of the on-court product and its reception stateside. According to Jon Lewis of Sports Media Watch, the favored Boston Celtics ...

Outside of the COVID seasons of 2020 and 2021, the last time there was an opening game with a viewership this low was in 2007. For the six seasons before COVID though, the NBA Finals opened the ...

Thursday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Mavericks and Celtics averaged a 5.7 rating and 10.99 million viewers on ABC (11.04 million including 43,000 on ESPN Deportes).

The NBA Finals are the biggest stage in basketball, and for a while, the championship series had courts that fit the occasion. After decades of on-court decals, the NBA had a brief stint where a ...

The 2024 NBA Finals clash was expected to be exciting between the Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics, but the same didn’t show in numbers. According to Sports Media Watch’s reports, Thursday ...

BOSTON -- There was a brief flash of a moment in the third quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Finals here when it seemed, just maybe, that Luka Doncic might beat the Boston Celtics all by himself.

The Dallas Mavericks suffered a 107-89 defeat in Game 1 of the NBA Finals at the hands of the Boston Celtics. Outside of a promising late third-quarter run, which saw the Mavericks cut the Celtics ...