The NBA Finals are on a ratings roll, with Friday\u2019s game becoming ABC\u2019s most-watched Game 2 since 2018.<\/p>\n
As the New Yorks Knicks achieved a 105-104 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, Game 2 scored\u00a016.43 million viewers, according to Nielsen big data plus panel figures.<\/p>\n
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Viewership for the game, which peaked with 19.42 million viewers at 11:15\u00a0p.m. ET, was up 88% from last year\u2019s Game 2. The game also marked the most-watched program of the day on Friday, June 5 across all of television and in all key male and adult demos.<\/p>\n
Through two games, the 2026\u00a0NBA Finals\u00a0are averaging 16.68 million viewers on ABC, ranking as the most-watched Finals through Game 2 since 2018 and rising 89% year-over-year.<\/p>\n
Viewership for Game 2 was slightly down from Game 1<\/a>, which\u00a0brought in 16.93 million viewers on Wednesday, June 3.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The game marked ABC\u2019s biggest Game 1 audience since 2018, as well as the most-watched opening Game 1 ever on ABC, excluding the Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers matchups.<\/p>\n The Knicks won the first two games of the NBA Finals, though the Spurs saw victory in Game 3 at Madison Square Garden, which saw the Spurs overtake the Knicks 115-111.<\/p>\n Next up, Game 4 is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10, and the Finals could stretch further into June as needed, with the potential Game 7 slated for Friday, June 19. All games debut at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Finals follow ratings success for the regular season, which saw the NBA\u00a0close out<\/a>\u00a0its 2026 season with biggest regular season audience the league has seen in 24 years.<\/p>\n The post NBA Finals Game 2 Notches Over 16 Million Viewers, ABC\u2019s Most-Watched Since 2018<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA Finals are on a ratings roll, with Friday\u2019s game becoming ABC\u2019s most-watched Game 2 since 2018.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,2357,8217,14735,459,2087,2696,82],"class_list":["post-726301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}