The games of the 2024 NBA Finals had an average TV rating of ***. The 2024 championships were contested between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks and saw the Celtics win 4-1 to claim their record-breaking **** NBA title in franchise history.

An average of **** million viewers tuned in to watch NBA regular season games across ABC, ESPN and TNT in the 2024/25 season. This marked a slight decline in the number of viewers from the previous season.

The NBA All-Star game is an annual basketball exhibition game contested between the Eastern Conference and Western Conference All-Stars. The 24 players featured in the game are selected through a voting process among fans, players, and media. The 2025 All-Star game was watched by 4.72 million viewers, which was a decrease of 13 percent from the 5.4 million viewers who tuned into the previous year's game.

First held in 1947, the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft is an annual pre-season event through which teams in the league select recruits from a pool of college and professional men's basketball players. The 2025 NBA Draft was shown on ESPN and ABC in the United States and attracted an average viewership of **** million viewers. The previous year had reached a record-high of **** million viewers.

The 2025 NBA Finals were watched by an average of **** million viewers in the United States. This marked a decline from the previous year when **** million viewers tuned in to watch the Boston Celtics clinch a record 18th NBA championship win against the Dallas Mavericks. How did the 2025 Finals play out? The 2025 championship series was contested between the Oklahoma City Thunder, champions of the Western Conference, and the Indiana Pacers, winners of the Eastern Conference. The Thunder emerged victorious in a back-and-forth seven game series, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander adding a championship ring to his NBA MVP and NBA Finals MVP awards for the 2025 season. Celebrations, however, were somewhat overshadowed by a horror Achilles heel injury sustained by Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton in Game 7. How did viewership of the NBA Finals compare to other major US sporting events? In 2025, NBA Finals viewership was only a fraction of the number of viewers of the Super Bowl in the U.S., with the latter exceeding *** million that year. Meanwhile, viewership of the World Series was more comparable to that of the NBA Finals, reaching over 14 million in 2024.

During the 2024 NBA Finals, Game 5 had the highest rating in the United States with an estimated 6.3 percent of households having tuned in to watch the Boston Celtics secure their record-breaking 18th NBA championship title against the Dallas Mavericks. Game 4 had the lowest rating with 4.7.

The graph shows the average TV ratings of selected National Basketball Association games / events in 2018. An estimated *** percent of all U.S. households tuned in to at least **** cumulative minutes of the NBA All-Star Game in 2018.

During the 2025 NBA Finals, Game 7 had the highest rating in the United States with an estimated **** percent of households having tuned in to watch the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers to secure their second NBA championship title. Game 2 had the lowest rating with ****.

During the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers, the average TV viewership in the United States peaked during Game 7 at ***** million. While this was the largest TV audience for an NBA Finals game since Game 6 2019, which drew an average viewership of ***** million, the 2025 Finals had the lowest average TV audience since 2021.

The National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league for men with 30 teams competing against each other in the United States. A survey conducted in March 2023 in the United States showed that 63 percent of respondents aged 65 and older had no interest in the NBA.

A survey conducted in January 2025 in the United States revealed that over half of NBA fans were Caucasian. Meanwhile, 20.7 percent were Hispanic.

A January 2025 survey in the United States revealed that over 60 percent of NBA fans who attended or watched games were male. Meanwhile, just under 40 percent of NBA fans were female.

Ahead of the 2024/25 season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the luxury tax threshold totaled 170.81 million U.S. dollars. This was an increase of 3.3 percent from the previous season and over double the threshold from a decade prior. The NBA operates with what is known as a soft salary cap. According to the rules laid out in the collective bargaining agreement, franchises that go over the salary cap have limited freedom in transfers. However, if a team's spending on salaries goes over the luxury tax threshold, which is always higher than the salary cap, it pays a tax to the league, which is partly redistributed among the franchises that did not exceed the threshold.

A September 2024 survey in the United States revealed that 16 percent of NBA fans had a preference for the Los Angeles Lakers. In second place, the Chicago Bulls were liked by 11 percent of fans.

The minimum salary for players signing contracts in the 2024/25 NBA season amounted to 1.16 million U.S. dollars. This represented an increase of around 3 percent from the previous season, when the figure stood at 1.12 million U.S. dollars.

In 2024, it was estimated that the newly crowned NBA champions, the Boston Celtics, would pay a luxury tax of around 41 million U.S. dollars. Since the 2006/7 season, 14 of the last 18 NBA Finals winners paid a luxury tax on their way to championship glory. The largest sum paid by any one franchise came in 2022, when the Golden State Warriors paid a staggering 170.3 million U.S. dollars in luxury tax. As part of the NBA's salary regulations, as defined in the league's collective bargaining agreement, a luxury tax is levied on teams that surpass the luxury tax threshold. The taxable sum is then evenly distributed between the NBA and the non-tax paying teams.

This graph shows the distribution of the NBA regular season ********* TV audience by age group. Viewers aged 18 to 34 comprised ** percent of the NBA regular season television audience in the ******* season.

This graph shows the gender distribution of the television audience for NBA games during the ********* regular season. The share of women viewers for the ******* NBA regular season was ** percent.

Millions of households across the United States tune in to watch NBA games every week during the season. Fans of the San Antonio Spurs seem to be particularly invested in their local team, with the household rating in the local TV market reaching 3.51 during the 2019/20 NBA season.

The 2024 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) regular season games were watched by an average of ******* viewers across media platforms in the United States. This was a significant increase from the previous year and made the **** season the league’s highest-viewed regular season in the last 24 years.