Game 7 Ratings....Best Since 1998

[Windy City Irish]

no matter the outcome or how the game was called the NBA got their way..


NEW YORK -- Game 7 drew the highest preliminary rating for an NBA Finals game since 1998.

The Lakers' 83-79 win Thursday night on ABC earned an 18.2 overnight rating. That's the highest for an NBA game since Michael Jordan won his last championship with the Bulls in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals against the Jazz, which posted a 22.9.

The rating was 32 percent higher than the only other Game 7 of the past 16 years, that one being Pistons-Spurs in 2005, which drew a 13.8.

Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program. Overnight ratings measure the country's largest markets.

The game drew a 39.7 rating in Los Angeles and a 33.9 in Boston

[shepherd]

yep yep! surprise surprise...

the fact that the NBA got exactly what they wanted out of this series (the best possible outcome) may not prove that Stern had a hand in it... but it sure as hell adds to the pile of evidence... especially when you look at a 4th quarter in which the refs decided they were going to be more important than the players...

20 points from the FT line in the 7th game of the NBA Finals? really? this is the time that we are going to suddenly decide to take control of the game?


seriously... people still in denial of this are truly naive...

Donaghy has been breaking down the officiating call by call for the entire series... in the entire series there was only 1 quarter where Donaghy didn't point out at least 1 bad call in favor of both teams... 4th quarter of game 7...

not a single bad call in favor of Boston, but 6 bad calls in favor of LA, resulting in a 9 to 11 point difference in the final score...

[shepherd]

by the way... i am not a Boston Celtics fan... i am a Chicago Bulls fan... there is no homerism going on here...