Opening games for eight first-round series average better than 4 million viewers.
playoffs began with their best TV numbers since LeBron James was in his first year with the Miami Heat.
The opening games of the eight first-round series averaged 4.15 million viewers across ABC, ESPN and TNT. That’s a 3 percent improvement on last year’s games and the best for the playoffs’ opening weekend since 2011 . The series opener between the Sacramento Kings, making their first playoff appearance since 2006, and defending champion Golden State Warriors had the largest audience of the weekend. That game, in primetime Saturday on ABC, averaged 6.26 million viewers. Two other games — Lakers-Grizzlies on ABC Sunday afternoon and Clippers-Suns Sunday night on TNT — also topped the 5 million-viewer mark.
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