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NBA Finals ratings: Pacers-Thunder thriller posts worst Game 1 numbers since league's COVID-19 downturn
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Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals averaged a 4.7 rating and 8.91 million viewers on ABC .
That's the lowest-watched NBA Finals opener of the Nielsen meter era (since 1988 ) It's an 18% ratings decline and 19% viewership decline from last year's opener.
The decline would have been worse had Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers not won Game 1 .
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