Nets crush Knicks in average 2019-20 TV rating, rank just outside NBA’s top-10

Knicks fans thinks it’s impossible for the Ntes to become New York’s team, but the ratings already indicate Brooklyn is making its move.

Kevin Durant hasn’t even played a second of Nets basketball and Brooklyn is already embarrassing the New York Knicks in the ratings.

USA Today SMG’s HoopsHype listed off the ratings for every NBA franchise on Wednesday, and the Nets fell just outside the top-10, coming in at No. 12. The Knicks came in at No. 27.

Brooklyn had a regular season average rating of 0.77, which is up 42.04% from 2018-19. The Nets’ regular season average audience size bumped up a couple extra percentage points (44.34%), increasing to 1.19 million.

The Knicks, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction — and their decline was greater than the Nets’ growth. New York drew an average rating of 0.20, which is a 69.47% dip from 2018-19. The average audience size of those watching the Knicks in 2019-20 was 0.33 million — down 67.02% from the previous season.

As for their viewership in the playoffs, the Nets did take a hit there, dropping 59.98% in the ratings from 2018-19 to 0.63 and 59.87% in average playoff audience to 0.82 million.

HoopsHype also has the national numbers for all of the Nets’ national TV games, and ranked them by overall audience:

  1. Brooklyn vs. Boston: 1.79 million (1.04 rating)
    November 27, 2019 on ESPN / Regular season
  2. LA Lakers vs. Brooklyn: 1.63 million (1.04 rating)
    January 23, 2020 on TNT / Regular season
  3. Trail Blazers vs. Brooklyn: 1.52 million (0.93 rating)
    August 13, 2020 on TNT / Regular season
  4. Toronto vs. Brooklyn: 1.45 million (0.94 rating)
    August 23, 2020 on TNT / First Round, Game 4
    48.31 percent less than in 2018-19
  5. Houston vs. Brooklyn: 1.42 million (0.94 rating)
    November 01, 2019 on ESPN / Regular season
  6. Brooklyn vs. Toronto: 1.30 million (0.89 rating)
    August 17, 2020 on ESPN / First Round, Game 1
    27.85 percent less than in 2018-19
  7. Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia: 1.19 million (0.77 rating)
    February 20, 2020 on TNT / Regular season
  8. Brooklyn vs. Boston: 1.12 million (0.71 rating)
    March 03, 2020 on TNT / Regular season
  9. Brooklyn vs. Boston: 1.02 million (0.66 rating)
    August 05, 2020 on ESPN / Regular season
  10. Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia: 0.93 million (0.64 rating)
    January 15, 2020 on ESPN / Regular season
  11. Detroit vs. Brooklyn: 0.88 million (0.69 rating)
    January 29, 2020 on ESPN / Regular season
  12. Brooklyn vs. LA Clippers: 0.40 million (0.25 rating)
    August 09, 2020 on NBA TV / Regular season
  13. Brooklyn vs. Toronto: 0.28 million (0.21 rating)
    August 19, 2020 on NBA TV / First Round, Game 2
    20.17 percent less than in 2018-19
  14. Toronto vs. Brooklyn: 0.24 million (0.47 rating)
    August 21, 2020 on NBA TV / First Round, Game 3
    90.12 percent less than in 2018-19

For the full list of 2019-20 NBA ratings, head on over to USA Today SMG’s HoopsHype.