{"id":12117,"date":"2011-12-29T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2011-12-29T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T21:41:10","slug":"nba-draws-big-christmas-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12117","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draws Big Christmas Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 NBA fans seem more excited about basketball\u2019s return than bitter about the lockout based on television ratings for the league\u2019s delayed openers.<\/p>\n<p>The five Christmas games Sunday averaged 6.2 million viewers based on fast national ratings, up from 6 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls-Lakers matchup was the third most-watched regular-season game ever on ABC, behind only last year\u2019s highly anticipated Heat-Lakers showdown and another meeting between Miami and LA in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 NBA fans seem more excited about basketball\u2019s return than bitter about the lockout based on television ratings for the league\u2019s delayed openers. The five Christmas games Sunday averaged 6.2 million viewers based on fast national ratings, up from 6 million last year. The Bulls-Lakers matchup was the third most-watched regular-season game ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}