The second to last game of the NBA Western Conference Finals was the most-watched sports event on Tuesday, May 28. The Timberwolves-Mavericks NBA Western Conference Finals Game 4 had an average of 6.87 million viewers across TNT (6.74M) and truTV (132K). This was a 16% decrease from last year’s Nuggets-Lakers game on ESPN (8.21M). However, compared to last year’s conference final Game 4 on TNT, which featured Celtics-Heat in the East, viewership increased by 5% from 6.56 million.
Following the NBA game, ESPN scored an impressive 2.07 million viewers for the Rangers-Panthers Game 4 in the NHL Eastern Conference Final. This was an 11% increase from Panthers-Hurricanes on TNT last year (1.86M). Compared to last year’s conference final on ESPN, which featured Stars-Golden Knights in the West, viewership increased by a whopping 31%. The Rangers-Panthers series was averaging 2.2 million viewers through four games, which was a remarkable increase of 37% compared to last year’s numbers.
In addition to all this excitement in professional sports, a record was set in women’s basketball with a game between the Sparks and Fever featuring Caitlin Clark drawing an average of 356,000 viewers on NBA TV. This was the largest WNBA audience ever on the network since it became Nielsen rated in