NBA Finals Game 5 - Knicks vs Spurs
Nielsen average audience: 24,540,000 viewers (final), per Sportico.
- Aired
- 2026-06-13 Saturday
- Networks
- ABC
- Teams
- New York Knicks · San Antonio Spurs
- Score
- Knicks 94, Spurs 90
24,540,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
provider-confirmed · 4 sources · final
figures last changed 2026-08-22
Published figures
JSONNielsen4 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast / Big Data + Panel · final
press-attributed · Sportico
24,540,000
Source quote not verbatim-confirmed against a fetched copy
24,540,000
10.3/33 (24.54M Viewers)Wikipedia, verbatim
24,540,000
Saturday's Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 5 averaged a 10.3 rating and 24.54 million viewersSports Media Watch, verbatim
24,540,000
10.3/33 (24.54M Viewers)Wikipedia, verbatim
1 provider figure · 4 press attributions · provider-confirmed
confirmed = published by the provider · press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
confirmed = published by the provider · press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
NBA 2025-26 season
1st of 101 published NBA figures in the 2025-26 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 20:37 UTC
NBA Finals by year
1993–2026Record
35.9M 1998
This telecast
#1 of 5 Big Data + Panel
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 20:37 UTC
NBA Finals Game 5, every year on record
Big Data + Panel
- 2026ABC24,540,000
Panel + Out-of-Home
20 earlier Game 5 telecasts
Before Out-of-Home
- 2019ABC18,340,000
- 2017ABC24,470,000
- 2016ABC20,530,000
- 2015ABC20,860,000
- 2014ABC18,000,000
- 2013ABC16,270,000
- 2012ABC18,460,000
- 2011ABC18,320,000
- 2010ABC18,650,000
- 2009ABC14,170,000
- 2008ABC16,880,000
- 2006ABC14,320,000
- 2005ABC13,090,000
- 2004ABC21,840,000
- 2003ABC9,310,000
- 2001NBC17,360,000
- 2000NBC15,570,000
- 1999NBC15,530,000
- 1998NBC30,600,000
- 1997NBC30,260,000
27 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 20:37 UTC
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24,540,000
2
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