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Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers

2025-05-09 · NBA · ESPN

3,910,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2025-05-13

Published figures

Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Earlier Friday, Cavaliers-Pacers Game 3 drew 3.91 million Sports Media Watch, verbatim

3,910,000

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

On the record

NetworksESPN

AwayCleveland Cavaliers

HomeIndiana Pacers

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Clippers–Mavericks

2024-05-03 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

3,900,000

NBA Knicks–Pacers

2024-05-17 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

5,020,000

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

Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers (2025-05-09): 3,910,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2025-05-13, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/05/nba-playoff-viewership-celtics-knicks-big-increases/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-cavaliers-pacers-2025-05-09, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020

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