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NBA Lakers–Warriors

Name: NBA Lakers–Warriors
Creator: RatingsReference
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2022-10-18 · NBA · TNT

3,550,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2022-10-19

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The Lakers-Warriors nightcap averaged 3.55 million viewers, up 4% from the same matchup last year and the league's largest Opening Night audience in three years (2019 Clippers-Lakers: 3.58M) and the fourth-largest in the past nine years. Sports Media Watch, verbatim

3,550,000

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

On the record

NetworksTNT

TeamsLakers · Warriors

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Golden State Warriors at Los Angeles Lakers

2021-10-19 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

3,390,000

NBA Nets–Bucks

2021-10-19 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,160,000

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 Lakers–Warriors (2022-10-18): 3,550,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2022-10-19, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2022/10/nba-opening-night-ratings-lakers-warriors-most-watched-three-years/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-lakers-warriors-2022-10-18, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020