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NBA Knicks–Celtics

Name: NBA Knicks–Celtics
Creator: RatingsReference
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2023-03-05 · NBA · ESPN

2,150,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2023-03-07

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

On ESPN, the double-overtime Knicks-Celtics game averaged a 1.2 and 2.15 million — the network's largest NBA audience of the season and up 74% in both measures from Raptors-Cavaliers last year (0.7, 1.23M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

2,150,000

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

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsCeltics · Knicks

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Raptors–Cavaliers

2022-03-06 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,230,000

NBA Knicks–Clippers

2022-03-06 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,070,000

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 Knicks–Celtics (2023-03-05): 2,150,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2023-03-07, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/03/nba-ratings-warriors-lakers-among-most-watched-knicks-celtics-suns-mavericks/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-celtics-knicks-2023-03-05, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020