Telecasts · NBA
NBA Lakers–Celtics
3,690,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2023-01-31
Published figures
JSON ↓Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Lakers-Celtics averaged a 2.05 rating and 3.69 million viewers on the latest edition of ABC's NBA Saturday Primetime , up 12% in ratings and 16% in viewership from Nets-Warriors last year (1.8, 3.17M) and the most-watched NBA regular season game outside of Christmas in three years — since Blazers-Lakers on ESPN in January 2020, the first Laker game after the passing of Kobe Bryant (4.41M).Sports Media Watch, verbatim
3,690,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
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