{"id":47854,"date":"2016-06-21T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=47854"},"modified":"2016-06-21T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T13:28:37","slug":"game-7-draws-top-nba-finals-rating-since-michael-jordans-last-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=47854","title":{"rendered":"Game 7 Draws Top NBA Finals Rating Since Michael Jordan&#8217;s Last Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Game 7 between the Cavaliers and Warriors has drawn the highest television rating for the NBA Finals since <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/1035\/michael-jordan\">Michael Jordan<\/a>&#8216;s last championship.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source srcset=\"http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570, http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570, http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40 2x\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, http:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0619%2Fr94484_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40 2x\" \/><img class=\"imageLoaded lazyloaded\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" \/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">LeBron James and the Cavaliers&#8217; Game 7 win over the Warriors drew the highest TV rating since Michael Jordan&#8217;s last championship.\u00a0<cite>Deanne Fitzmaurice for ESPN<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cleveland&#8217;s tense 93-89 win Sunday night to capture the city&#8217;s first title in more than a half-century averaged a 15.7 rating and nearly 30.8 million viewers on ABC. ESPN said Monday that both numbers are the best since Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals, when Jordan&#8217;s Bulls clinched their sixth ring.<\/p>\n<p>An additional 598,000 viewers streamed the game on WatchESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Viewership peaked with more than 44.5 million viewers and a 22.5 rating as the Cavs wrapped up the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings represent the percentage of U.S. homes with televisions tuned to a program. The game earned a 46.3 rating in the Cleveland area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 NEW YORK &#8212; Game 7 between the Cavaliers and Warriors has drawn the highest television rating for the NBA Finals since Michael Jordan&#8216;s last championship. LeBron James and the Cavaliers&#8217; Game 7 win over the Warriors drew the highest TV rating since Michael Jordan&#8217;s last championship.\u00a0Deanne Fitzmaurice for ESPN Cleveland&#8217;s tense 93-89 win Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47854","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\/47854","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\/88910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}