This is a list of television ratings for NBA Finals in the United States, based on Nielsen viewing data.
[2] It was the first basketball game to draw more than 30 million average viewers in 18 years, and only the seventh non-NFL sports telecast (excluding the Olympics) to have done so since 1998.
[3] The 2019 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors had a drop in American viewership.
[4][5] At the same time, the presence of the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Finals boosted Canadian viewership to record levels.
[6] For the 2020 NBA Finals, the ratings dropped to a historic low, with one of the games drawing only 5.9 million viewers.