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NBA Lakers–Mavericks
3,020,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2026-09-03
Published figures
JSON ↓Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Last weekend's Lakers-Mavericks NBA "Sunday Night Basketball" game — the first Laker game after the apparent season-ending injuries to Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves — averaged a combined 3.7 million viewers on the NBC family of networks, per Nielsen (1.5, 3.02M) and Adobe Analytics, marking the largest NBA audience since an Olympic-adjacent Celtics-Lakers game on "Sunday Night Basketball" in February (5.6M).Sports Media Watch, verbatim
3,020,000
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · preliminary
press-attributed · The TV Ratings Guide
7:30 PM NBA: Lakers v. Mavericks 0.69 10 3.02 NBCThe TV Ratings Guide, verbatim
3,020,000
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
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