{"id":34061,"date":"2025-07-24T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34061\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:57:08","slug":"nba-2k25-las-vegas-summer-league-viewership-saw-a-27-increase-across-espn-networks-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34061\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA 2K25 Las Vegas Summer league viewership saw a 27% increase across ESPN networks in 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The NBA 2K26 Las Vegas Summer League saw a 27% viewership uptick this year across ESPN and ESPN2. Games averaged 255,000 viewers, up from 201,000 last year. It\u2019s still below the 2023 slate when Spurs C Victor Wembanyama debuted, which averaged 310,000 viewers (that was the league\u2019s second-best figure yet). The record remains 322,000 for games in 2017, which were fueled by the arrival of Lonzo Ball with the Lakers. Sunday\u2019s championship game between the Hornets and Kings drew 420,000 viewers, up from 406,000 for Grizzlies-Heat in the title game. Helping overall numbers this year\u2019s was Cooper Flagg\u2019s debut with the Mavericks against Bronny James and the Lakers. That drew 955,000 viewers, which is the fourth-best Summer League audience ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The chart below lists viewership figures for select recent sports telecasts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA 2K26 Las Vegas Summer League saw a 27% viewership uptick this year across ESPN and ESPN2.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[352,355,99],"class_list":["post-34061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-espn","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}