Sport 5 of the Western Convention Finals between the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves averaged simply 4.62 million viewers on ESPN on Wednesday, making it the least-watched non-COVID season Western Convention Finals sport since 2013.
Oklahoma Metropolis’s blowout win was additionally the least-watched WCF Sport 5 since Utah Jazz-Spurs in 2007 (3.94M), falling even under that Lakers-Nuggets sequence within the 2020 “bubble” (4.99M).
Viewership was down 26 % in comparison with Sport 5 final season when the Dallas Mavericks closed out the Wolves. The total, five-game Thunder-Timberwolves sequence averaged 5.59 million, which down 17 % from final yr’s sequence between the Mavericks and Wolves.
The Thunder have one of many NBA’s smallest media markets, however their West Finals appearances with a core of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are amongst essentially the most watched in current historical past.
