usatoday.com - 6/17/2008
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Television ratings for the NBA Finals were up from the last time the series went five games. The ABC network on Monday said Los ...
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A Stern Warning - NBA, NBL and FIBA News & Views —
... Apparently the NBA Finals are up 11% in TV ratings on the last time the Finals went to five games -- the 2006 Dallas v Miami series -- which isn't really earth-shattering news given the teams involved. ...
NBA Finals Preview: Celtics-Lakers Game 6 [NBA Finals]
Deadspin —
... Must-not-see TV, Part I. This is Celtics-Lakers, baby! Everybody's watching, right? Wrong. This year's NBA Finals are currently on pace for only the sixth-best championship round rating in the 10 years since Michael Jordan pushed off of Bryon Russell and shot his way to a storybook ending that he would later totally ruin by playing in Washington. Anyway, the ratings for Game 5 were up 11 percent from Game 5 of the 2006 Heat-Mavs Finals, which is only slightly more impressive than being named "primary staff contact" for your ...
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Game 5 Ratings Up 11% from '06 NBA Finals —
NBA.com: News 6/17/2008
The Los Angeles Lakers' 103-98 win over the Boston Celtics to avoid elimination averaged a 10.1 fast national rating on ABC, the network said Monday. That's an 11 percent increase over the 9.1 for Game 5 of the Dallas-Miami series in 2006.
