NBA Finals Post Highest Ratings Since Michael Jordan’s Last Championship
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
The NBA Finals has returned to the halcyon years when series games drew an average of twenty million viewers, a number not seen since 1998, when the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan defeated the Utah Jazz while 29 million people watched.
Wilt Chamberlain may have been the last player to face a higher degree of difficulty than LeBron James to win an NBA title.
The Cleveland Cavaliers try to become the second team in NBA history to win the title by defeating two 60-win teams—without the benefit of Phil Jackson.
Sunday night’s Tony Awards marked the lowest-rated broadcast ever for Broadway’s big night.
For the first time since Michael Jordan retired in 1998, Tim Duncan, Dwyane Wade, or Kobe Bryant won’t play in the NBA Finals.