ESPN’s coverage of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 103-100 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday in the NBA Play-In Tournament drew an average of 5.62 million viewers, which the network said was its most-watched game since the pre-pandemic 2019 Western Conference Finals.The game, which saw the defending NBA champion Lakers secure the No.
7 playoff seed in the West, was up 190% from the single play-in game last season on ABC. Earlier in the evening, ESPN’s coverage of the Memphis Grizzlies-San Antonio Spurs game drew 2.29 million viewers.The Lakers’ close victory was the second-most watched NBA game of the 2020-21 season across all networks, behind only the team’s Christmas Day game against the Dallas Mavericks, which was simulcast on
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