Lakers' Title Win Brings Huge Ratings For ABC

A Game Seven between the two most storied franchises in the NBA was asking for a monster rating, and that’s just what the Lakers and Celtics deliver. ABC earns an 18.2 overnight rating, the highest mark for an NBA Finals game since ’98, when Michael Jordan pushed off of Bryon Russell and won his final championship with the Bulls. The series concludes an up-and-down postseason for the league, which got out to a fast start ratings-wise only to need an epic Finals to bring up the total numbers. The NBA now heads into an offseason that at least initially will be dominated by talk of where some of the greatest players in the game will call home next fall.

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