NBA Playoffs: Clippers/Spurs Game 2 Earns ESPN’s Top Audience of the Playoffs

Posted by | 05/18/2012 at 5:40 pm

ESPN put up solid numbers for Thursday’s NBA playoff doubleheader.

Game 2 of the Clippers/Spurs second round NBA playoff series drew 4.683 million viewers on ESPN Thursday night. There was no comparable telecast either last year or in 2010.

Clippers/Spurs ranks as the most-viewed game of the playoffs on ESPN or ESPN2 (eleven telecasts).

Earlier in the night, Game 3 of the Heat/Pacers series drew 4.453 million viewers, up 41% from Hawks/Magic Game 2 in 2010 (3.155M). There was no comparable telecast last year.

Ratings/Viewership For Second Round NBA Playoff Games

Date Time Game # Net Viewers (000) vs. ’11 vs. ’10
Sat., 5/12/12 8:00 PM Sixers/Celtics
1
 TNT
4,253
none
-25%
Sun., 5/13/12 3:30 PM Pacers/Heat
1
 ABC
7,016
-23%
+18%
Mon., 5/14/12 7:00 PM Sixers/Celtics
2
 TNT
4,016
-28%
-27%
9:30 PM Lakers/Thunder
1
 TNT
6,687
+4%
+63%
Tue., 5/15/12 7:00 PM Pacers/Heat
2
 TNT
4,457
-26%
+50%
9:30 PM Clippers/Spurs
1
 TNT
5,040
+4%
+8%
Wed., 5/16/12 7:00 PM Celtics/Sixers
3
 TNT
3,730
-28%
none
9:30 PM Lakers/Thunder
2
 TNT
7,445
+6%
+86%
Thu., 5/17/12 7:00 PM Heat/Pacers
3
 ESPN
4,453
none
+41%
9:30 PM Clippers/Spurs
2
 ESPN
4,683
none
none

(Thursday’s numbers from TV By the Numbers)

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