[NBC Sports PR] The Celtics vs. Lakers Game on NBC Averaged 5.6 Million Viewers, Making It Most-Watched Regular Season Game Since 2017 (Excluding Tip-Off and Christmas) and Regular Season Sunday Night Game Since 2000
Source: https://nesn.com/boston-celtics/news/nbc-announces-huge-celtics-lakers-viewership-numbers/9ce5a9d2ba0085f102ab761e?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=appeared_on
Payton Pritchard effect
There were hella white boys on the floor
Just wait til you see the newest iteration of Derrick and the Whites featuring Vuc, this might be v5
Derrick and the Whites! My favorite lineups
There have been enough iterations to have a ranking, the KP/Hauser/Pritchard versions with Mykhailuk weren’t common but damn was that a crazy amount of 5 out shooting. Vuc can be KP and Scheierman/Gonzalez are way better than Svi, could be a new top DatWs lineup!
The Celtics devotion to always being able to run a Derick and the whites lineup is great
Was: Derrick, PP, hauser/svi/schierman, kornet/KP
Now: Derrick, PP, hauser/schierman/garza, vuc
Love the white lineups! White pow-
I noticed this during the game
https://imgur.com/a/AQ2tZBv
Making NBA Hwhite Again
It’s like a 1950s Celtics vs. Knickerbockers game.
FUNDAMENTALS
The percentage of white players has definitely gone up a lot recently
It was like watching a game from the 60s in hi-def
Increased viewership, just another way Caitlin Clark takes after our boy
What happens when you put games on channels people actually watch and not bum ass TNT
Having the games on prime and peacock changed the game.. the one time my wife’s spending habits have paid off.
I must say I thinks it’s BS that I cant watch prime time games even if I have the NBA app.
NBC/Peacock been killing it since they brought back the NBA. They had Sunday night football and Olympics for years but having NBA on Sunday is a great way to fill in the void of no football. Soon they’re adding Sunday baseball games too.
They also have a massive library of NBC studio shows too, if you’re in the mood for old school shows.
I already had Peacock for the Premier League. Getting basketball for free with something I already paid for has been awesome.
NBA app is dogshit anyways it’s constantly buffering for me even with gig speed internet and no ping and hitching issues on anything else on my tv
Works fine on my Apple TV. And my Sony Tv. Although I like to reset my tv to factory settings when it slow downs too much..
My 2 vizios have issues all the time unfortunately
That sucks on my older Sony I used my ps4.. cause it does do have buffering problems. I’m not going to lie tho. I just used my phone most of the time. I got kids and a wife that always bogart or everything. Tbh most of the time I got it on my tablet. It’s truely a flex when I can used both.
Oh trust I’ve don’t a lot of troubleshooting on everything, my Xbox and PlayStation do the same thing. I was having an issue where every commercial it kicked me out of the game, and now everytime I close the app and reopen it it logs me out lmao the nba app and the espn app are dogshit to me for being made for billion dollar entertainment products. You’d think they’d develop a halfway decent app that doesn’t experience consistent issues
Bruh I’d called them one time. when I couldn’t watch the game I kept booting me off. And after that it’s been cookies. But I feel for you man. That is some bull..
Definitely, although it’s interesting that this even beat every ABC game since then too. I know they changed the methodology for tracking viewership in the last year or so, I wonder how much of a role that plays here
That plays a massive role in it.
NBA on TNT was goated and I’m glad they kept the theme in some though I will miss be able to hear some of the parts they don’t show anymore the slow parts in the middle and them not cutting to commercial during the game with it anymore. The graphics were nice and the scorebug was elite.
TNT had the far superior product compared to ESPN, ABC.
TNT always went to commercials instead of showing free throws does it still happen on NBC?
I mean the nba has had Saturday night prime time and sunday games on ABC for decades lol
Top games of the season:
Spurs/Thunder Christmas - 6.7M
Cavs/Knicks Christmas - 6.4M
Mavs/Warriors Christmas - 6.1M
Rockets/Thunder Opening Night - 5.9M
Celtics/Lakers 2⁄22 - 5.6M
Rockets/Lakers Christmas - 5.3M
Warriors/Lakers Opening Night - 5.1M
Lakers/Knicks 2⁄1 - 4.5M
Timberwolves/Nuggets Christmas - 3.6M
Knicks/Celtics or Thunder/Warriors 12⁄2 - 3.2M
Cup Finals Knicks/Spurs - 3.1M
Oh we played the Spurs on Christmas?
117-102 at your place.
Something flew over your head
Most people fly over your whole state
Goddam
I’d make a 9⁄11 joke here but I’ll choose to be the bigger person
You live in the Midwest… chances are you are a bigger person.
Found Charles Barkley’s burner.
Gah damn
Jokes on you I’m not from Oklahoma
You just keep getting cooked holy shit lmfao
Lifelong fan I’m guessing? Cool that 1 year olds have reddit accounts now
Became a fan after watching thunderstruck
You’re from Oklahoma, that’s not a choice
they just mad they got swept by HIMothy McVeigh back in the 90s when the game was more physical
you’re really opening urself up to 9⁄11 jokes lol
You’re asking for it
It doesn’t take a big person to not do that, holy shit Gen Z is a fucking half-human nightmare
🥶 🌎 I know them streets in NY are cold.. but chill.. 💀
Love OKC fans :)
its flying over mine too whats the joke
I think the joke is that’s a game they prefer to block from their memory. While the joke itself is fine, it’s a narrow audience. Most people don’t give enough shit about that game to get the joke. So blaming the audience in this case is pretty embarrassing since it’s on him to make sure the audience would get that joke.
Yeah. Like obviously the game happened but they’re pretending it didn’t. Kind of like the Super Bowl this year cause I was really hoping to see the pats there. Shame it got cancelled
You can tell the league had zero faith the the Celtics by the fact that they didn’t get a Christmas game
Didn’t play on Christmas and they flexed our 12⁄26 game off of Amazon Prime lol.
Although to be fair that might’ve had more to do with us facing the Pacers
Damn 5.6 million people got to watch Payton Pritchard put belt to ass like that?
I like how he can push off Vando blatantly yet if Vando guards him physically it’s a foul, that Celtics whistle
Yes that famous Celtics whistle that has the Lakers #1 in FT rate and the Celtics #30.
The whistle goes both ways, it lets you guys foul all game same as the Thunder do while barely getting called for it
You also had more FT somehow while playing ultra physical
Yes because all fouls lead to FTs. Fantastic logic!
Celtics have the 10th worst foul differential at 1.1 more fouls per game than opponents, Lakers have the 3rd best at 2.2 less fouls per game than opponents. It’s really not worth dying on this hill
And how often do you guys foul and it’s not called?
Soft team, soft fans
If Vando can get knocked back 10 feet and fall on his ass from a light extension by Pritchard, he needs to hit the gym
Also, it’s funny seeing the team with (statistically) the best whistle in the NBA saying the team with (statistically) a bottom 10 whistle has the refs in their pocket
He’s taking too many Leflop lessons.
Lakers got called for those fouls because they came out soft and then tried to turn up the intensity. If you want to get away with being physical you have to play that way from the jump.
Also, Pritchard is 6’1”, Vando is 6’8”. If Vando is getting shoved to the ground like that it’s because he tripped over his own feet, not because PP was able to bowl him over with a forearm.
All that said, PP is a dawg and regularly cooks dudes with 7+ inches on him so it’s no dig at vando. He has some of the tightest and quickest handles in the league and is an expert at timing his crossovers and getting his defenders legs crossed up. Add in a slight shove at the right time that the refs will rarely ever call? It’s BBQ chicken almost every time.
I would put him up there with Kyrie for handles. He puts videos out on his dribble workouts and its asinine what he can do with a ball.
Poor 6’8” 220lbs Vando getting pushed around and abused by a 6’1” 180lbs guard menace. Who will think of the children?
Massive flop lol
5.6 millions watched the Celtics give the lakers an ass whooping on Pat Riley statue night :’)
It probably helped that it was right after the Olympics closing ceremony, and there was the ad that ran during the Olympics reminding everyone of the Celtics Lakers rivalry.
They played an ad for it basically every other event the final week, which is very smart
Fans are still waiting for that Celtics vs Lakers rivalry finals..
Lakers will get dogwalked in the finals if that happens.
We will be all watching It. All 4 games. To be fair, I typically watch all finals game anyway.
It’s conflicting. I’d love to see Luka win a ring but not if he’s wearing the purple and gold.
Conflicted.. I would like Curry to win another ring. I don’t think it will be with the Warriors.
Ironically if Tatum comes back and the Jays somehow won a ring this year, Curry’s legacy would only increase right?
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Even with Luka. Lets be honest, Luka is an all-world offensive talent. He’s one of the worst defenders in the NBA. Watching him defend Jayson Tatum would be hilariously bad.
That’s not going to be his assignment. Luka defending Pritchard..or try too at least
Stop, stop! I can only get so erect!
Doesn’t PP have top tier isolation numbers this year?
last i checked he was scoring 1.3 points per possession in iso
Man the celtics are the team to take advantage of luka unless they play heavy heavy zone theres no hiding him
There is a reason the Lakers are fading…they have the 24th rated defense. They only care about offense. Defense wins championships, offense wins individual accolades.
Pritchard is a bench player. It’d be likely Hauser. The starting lineup with this roster is Queta, Tatum, Brown, Hauser, White. Regardless, no one on the Lakers can come close to guarding Tatum and Brown. On the flip. Tatum and Brown are above average defenders and would likely be able to handle Luka and Lebron far easier then the opposite.
Lets be honest though, if the Lakers even make the playoffs, they aren’t escaping the first round.
Pritchard is a bench player in name only. He gets 33 minutes a night. Just behind JB and White.
Luka was fine guarding brown the other night.
I have to take your word for it I didn’t see the whole game I was watching the Knicks game. And the dubs bench taking on the nuggets. But if The lakers lost by 20. I can safely say they didn’t execute on defense
We already saw Luca vs Celtics a couple of years ago in the Finals. Didn’t turn out great for Luca.
I’m just saying from a ratings standpoint. The nba would bust out a bottle of Jergens lotion., if they get a Lakers/Celtics finals. Adam Silver’s eyes would be rolling behind his head just at the thought.
I feel like they been saying this with Lebron every year for 4-5 years lol
Unless everyone in the west is injured I think we would be thinking very differently about the lakers if they managed to win the west this year
For sure! The West is Stacked!
If the Lakers make it to the Finals, they’ll be playing much better than they are now
Yo Adam S, enough with this bullshit second apron crap and talk of “parity.” Give the people what they want.
Imagine with the Lakers new Owners.. LA Dodgers 2.0…
Lakers gotta make it out of the first round before that can happen
I hope Minneapolis gets expansion team and takes 6 rings back from la
It’s essentially the NBA version of Sunday Night Football, and it’s absolutely giving the games more weight.
Olympic lead in thats why
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Lol. Lmao even.
What momentum? Yall scored like 90pts 💀
You gave them too much credit they scored 89
Luka and Reaves are coming off injuries? Brons been bad
They simply weren’t beating Celtics + refs, the multiple missed goaltends and other calls all happened at key moments
Bruh yall had a full roster. Celtics literally missing JT. The mental acrobatics you are pulling is very admirable and hilarious
NBC broadcasts are so much better than ESPN.
It’s that and the accessibility. Really easy to watch on peacock
Everyone’s broadcasts are better than ESPN.
Is the NBA falling off or not? I felt like previously I saw a lot of posts and stats suggesting as much but recently seems like it’s swinging the other way.
NBC is way more accessible to most people than TNT. So more people watch it. Some commenters like to pretend that cable vs OTA doesn’t matter but it does. Whenever the NBA has had good games on OTA channels it gets better ratings, when it’s on cable it gets worse ratings.
Also, local affiliate channels carry the game if its on say NBC.
NBA in the fall (football, past season baseball) has rough ratings. NBA after Christmas picks up steam and ratings improve. Happens every year.
Feels like the season starts on Christmas
It’s one game
It was also immediately after the final coverage of the Olympics, so I’m sure a lot of those viewers were remnants from that.
I’m glad so many people got to see how bad the lakers are.
Pritchard show
NBA: should we put our best games on a channel that people actually know about and on nights that aren’t garbage? Nah let’s have two historical teams play on Tuesday at 11 pm est on ESPN Deportes and TBS
I love TNT. But moving to a platform more people can see the games is the best thing NBA has done.
Good, a lot of people got to see the Lakers get their asses kicked.
Getting close to surpassing 9am EDT games between the Colts & Falcons.
in the preseason
Funny, put on a good match, on a channel everyone can get for free, and people watch. Crazy.
Effect of U.S. men’s hockey winning gold.
Charles Barkley in shambles
Uh what??
damn thats why Lukas been shit on so much. He acted like a bitch during the most viewed game of the decade
5.6m fans tuned in to watch lakers get they ass whooped
Raw count of viewers is pretty irrelevant when population is rising.
article reads like AI
Unfortunately most are now
So it’s the most watched game since 2017 if you exclude pretty much everything.
The headline is misleading. It’s the most watched because it was the most accessible lol. Lately I see lots of ratings by nbc making apples to oranges comparisons
What makes NBC more accessible than ABC?
NBC has more local affiliates and the own majority of them
As bad as lukas complaining was/is, the refs were terrible in that game
No amount of reffing was fixing that. The Lakers are total ass…they are completely incapable of playing anything that remotely resembles defense. You don’t lose by 22 points because of bad reffing.
Most of the bad reffing was in the 3qtr and earlier when it was a close game. Each call/no call adds up. I’m not saying that was the single reason they lost. . Interesting how the teams records were only one game apart before the matchup, yet the narratives were so different
They had the same amount of fouls and the Celtics had 3 more free throws. Again, they got absolutely dog walked. That team is not good. The narratives are different because the Lakers are an old team. As the season progresses, they will get worse and worse. You can’t have a 41 year old man be the second best player on your team, it doesn’t work. Lebron is cooked. He doesn’t have the energy to play both sides of the floor, so he only plays offense. Combine that with Luka who literally can’t play defense and you have a making for disaster. The Lakers currently have the 24th rated defense.