The Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks came together to deliver what was a pretty entertaining game on Thursday night between the two best teams in the league. And it delivered what is perceived by experts as a pretty good rating for their TV partners, although it wasn’t close to being the highest-rated game of the young season.
According to updated ratings from last night, the Bucks-Lakers showdown on TNT received a 1.12 rating and had a viewership of 2.78 million. Before the game, The Athletic’s Brett Dawson interviewed Sports Business Daily’s Tony Karp who said anything around 2.7 million would be “a hit” for the league.
So the Lakers and Bucks not only delivered a good game they also delivered some much needed good ratings for the NBA. The Lakers-Bucks game was the third-most viewed show on cable last night trailing only the Democratic Debate and coverage of the same debate.
The Clippers-Rockets game which was more of a thriller on Thursday had a viewership of 1.87 million.