NBA Finals Game 3 - Bucks vs Suns
Nielsen average audience: 9,250,000 viewers (revised), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 2021-07-11 Sunday
- Networks
- ABC
- Teams
- Milwaukee Bucks · Phoenix Suns
- Score
- Bucks 120, Suns 100
9,250,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · revised
figures last changed 2026-08-28
Published figures
JSONNielsen2 figures
9,250,000
9.25MSports Media Watch, verbatim
9,020,000
4.7 (9.02M Viewers)Wikipedia, verbatim
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
Revision ledger
NBA 2020-21 season
9th of 177 published NBA figures in the 2020-21 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 22:06 UTC
NBA Finals by year
1993–2026Record
35.9M 1998
This telecast
#26 of 36 Panel + Out-of-Home
Years on record
31 1993–2026
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
- Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
- Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
- Big Data + Panelsince Sept 2025
171 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 22:06 UTC
NBA Finals Game 3, every year on record
This telecast: #4 of 6 Game 3 telecasts in the Panel + Out-of-Home era
Big Data + Panel
- 2026ABC23,790,000
Panel + Out-of-Home
23 earlier Game 3 telecasts
Before Out-of-Home
- 2019ABC13,440,000
- 2018ABC17,850,000
- 2017ABC20,050,000
- 2016ABC16,470,000
- 2015ABC18,770,000
- 2014ABC14,780,000
- 2013ABC14,050,000
- 2012ABC15,550,000
- 2011ABC15,340,000
- 2010ABC15,960,000
- 2009ABC14,200,000
- 2008ABC14,510,000
- 2007ABC9,490,000
- 2006ABC12,250,000
- 2005ABC10,630,000
- 2004ABC16,210,000
- 2003ABC10,760,000
- 2002NBC16,210,000
- 2001NBC20,280,000
- 2000NBC16,370,000
- 1999NBC17,010,000
- 1998NBC25,700,000
- 1997NBC20,950,000
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