Telecasts · NBA

NBA Lakers–Cavaliers

Name: NBA Lakers–Cavaliers
Creator: RatingsReference
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2018-11-21 · NBA · ESPN

3,690,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-11-27

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Last Wednesday's Lakers-Cavaliers NBA regular season game earned a 2.1 rating and 3.69 million viewers on ESPN, up 11% in ratings and 12% in viewership from last year (Warriors-Thunder: 1.9, 3.28M) and up 200% and 232% respectively from 2016 (Spurs-Hornets: 0.7, 1.11M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

3,690,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsCavaliers · Lakers

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Lakers–Kings

2017-11-22 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,200,000

NBA Warriors–Thunder

2017-11-22 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

3,200,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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NBA Lakers–Cavaliers (2018-11-21): 3,690,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-11-27, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/11/lakers-ratings-lebron-cleveland-espn/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-cavaliers-lakers-2018-11-21, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950