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A doubleheader on Tuesday averaged 5.6 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, based on Nielsen<\/a>\u2019s big data plus panel ratings and internal streaming figures. That figure is inclusive of both games, with the later contest between the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and Golden State Warriors<\/a> stretching well past midnight Et.<\/p>\n The 5.6 million cross-platform viewers are the most for the NBA\u2019s season tipoff since 2010 (excluding the 2011 season, which began on Christmas Day after an owner lockout), which averaged 5.7 million viewers on TNT<\/a> and featured LeBron James\u2019 first game with the Miami Heat<\/a>. Last year\u2019s tipoff doubleheader averaged 2.95 million viewers on TNT (under a different Nielsen measurement system that didn\u2019t include the big data component).<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s opening game between the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and Houston Rockets<\/a> averaged 5.9 million cross-platform viewers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NBA\u2019s ballyhooed return to NBC brought in a sizable audience \u2014 the most for the league\u2019s season opener in 15 years. A doubleheader on Tuesday averaged 5.6 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, based on Nielsen\u2019s big data plus panel ratings and internal streaming figures. That figure is inclusive of both games, with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2111463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TV-Ratings-NBAs-Return-to-NBC-Roundball-Rocks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111465,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111463\/revisions\/2111465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}