The finals ratings continue to hit a new low, and the Flying Time and the Yellow and Green Battles still make fans remember it

The ratings of the Finals this season are continuing to decline, and it seems that basketball fans have let the league know their views on small and medium-sized teams in the NBA Finals. In the second game of the NBA Finals in the 2024-2025 season, Oklahoma easily defeated the Indiana Pacers 123-107, rewriting the total score to 1-1. The next game they will fly to Indiana to compete in the G3 match in the Finals.

According to statistics, the average ABC viewer of 8.76 million viewers in this game was viewed online, a decrease of 29% from the second game of the 2023-2024 season. The Celtics played against the Mavericks in the second game of the finals last season. After winning at home, the Celtics led by a total score of 2-0.

Since the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007, the game ranked second game (7.5 million) in the 2020 park game, neither the first nor the second game reached the 9 million mark. According to media statistics, the first and second games of the Cavaliers vs. Spurs in 2007 and the Nets vs. Spurs in 2003 averaged 9 million. The ratings of the NBA Finals were concentrated in the Jordan era (90s), as well as the early Lakers dynasty led by O'Neal/Bryant (early 2000s), especially the 1998 G6 match between the Bulls and the Jazz, with a rating of 35.89 million, with an average online viewership of 29 million.

The highest peak viewership in the past decade was the G7 battle between the Cavaliers vs. The Cavaliers reversed the Warriors 1-3 and completed a historic tiebreak battle. The average number of viewers in the finals that year reached 20.47 million, and the number of viewers in the G7 battle was 31.02 million, the highest peak in the past decade.

In the past decade, especially after James entered the finals for eight consecutive years, although the game occasionally had highlights (such as the epic tiebreak in 2016), the overall ratings still showed a downward trend, falling from 22.6% during the Jordan period to 5.7% last season.

The new low ratings this season also made fans start to piss off: We don’t want to see a full-point competition!