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NBA Thunder–Lakers

Name: NBA Thunder–Lakers
Creator: RatingsReference
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2023-02-07 · NBA · TNT

2,980,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2023-02-08

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Tuesday's Thunder-Lakers NBA regular season game, in which James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, averaged a 1.7 rating and 2.98 million viewers on TNT — the network's largest regular season audience outside of Opening Night since Clippers-Lakers on opening night of the "bubble" restart in July 2020 (3.35M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

2,980,000

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

On the record

NetworksTNT

TeamsLakers · Thunder

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Bucks–Lakers

2022-02-08 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,270,000

NBA Celtics–Nets

2022-02-08 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

824,000

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 TNT, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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NBA Thunder–Lakers (2023-02-07): 2,980,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2023-02-08, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/02/lebron-james-nba-scoring-record-ratings-tnt-viewership-thunder-lakers/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-lakers-thunder-2023-02-07, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020