Warriors Vs Thunder Game 7
With a Game 7 victory over the Thunder, the Golden State Warriors won the 2016 Western Conference Finals. Here are the five big takeaways from the night. The Warriors followed their thrilling Game 6 win in Oklahoma City on Saturday night with another memorable victory at Oracle Arena on Monday, defeating the Thunder 96-88 to become back-to-back. The Thunder are a solid 6-point favorite against the Warriors. Vegas had a good feel for the line for this one, as the game opened with the Thunder as a 5-point favorite. Over/Under: 216.
Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle Buy Photo Russell Westbrook (0) shoots over Andrew Bogut (12) in the first half as the Golden State Warriors played the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 7 of the. The Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder are set to meet Wednesday evening in Game 7 of their first-round NBA Playoffs series. This has been a gripping series from start to finish, and the.
Game 7 of the NBA's Western Conference Finals delivered in both action and viewership.
The Golden State Warriors 96-88 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder brought in an average viewership of 15.9 million for TNT on Monday night.
The highly anticipated win or go home match up between Steph Curry's Warriors and Kevin Durant's Thunder was cable's most watched NBA telecast of all time. It was also the the most watched program in the history of TNT.
The game peaked at 19.8 million viewers from 11:15 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. as the Warriors wrapped up the win.
Game 7 brought in big viewership in both the Bay Area and Oklahoma City where roughly 30% of the homes were watching the game.
TNT's NBA postgame show, 'Inside the NBA,' even saw big ratings bringing in an overnight rating of 4.8, the highest overnight rating for the show ever.
Overall, the game and the post game delivered the two top rated programs of the night across both cable and broadcast TV.
TNT, like CNN, is owned by Time Warner(TWX).
Golden State's win now sets up what could be a blockbuster NBA Finals for ABC.
The Warriors will be taking on LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night. This pits the two biggest stars in the NBA (if not the entire sports world) in a rematch of last year's heavily watched Finals.
The six games of the 2015 NBA Finals averaged 19.9 million viewers for ABC. This was the most watched NBA Finals for the network since it started airing it in 2003.
It was also the most watched Finals since 1998 when Michael Jordan's Bulls defeated the Utah Jazz.
With attention surrounding James' attempt to end Cleveland's championship drought and the Warriors coming off a historic 73 win season, this year's number could easily top last year's.