Liberty-Lynx Game 5 most-watched WNBA Finals recreation since ’99

The New York Liberty’s title-clinching victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday was probably the most watched WNBA Finals recreation since 1999.

The Game 5 thriller, gained by the Liberty 67-62 in extra time, had a 1.1 score with 2.15 million viewers on ESPN. The earlier excessive was the deciding Game 3 of the 1999 WNBA Finals between the Houston Comets and Liberty that had 3.25 million viewers.

It was the fourth-largest viewers ever for a WNBA Finals recreation, with the opposite three all broadcast on NBC.

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Earlier than Sunday, the biggest viewers for a Game 5 of the WNBA Finals was 913,000 viewers for a Los Angeles Sparks vs. Lynx winner-take-all recreation in 2017. The WNBA switched to a best-of-five Finals format in 2005 and can swap to a best-of-seven format subsequent season.

Whilst Sunday’s recreation determined the WNBA championship, it was simply the seventh-largest WNBA viewers this season, counting the WNBA draft.

The six video games this season with greater audiences all concerned rookie sensation Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. That record consists of 4 Fever video games, the draft and the WNBA All-Star Game.

Clark has drawn a wider viewers to the WNBA, with the league reaching at the least 1 million viewers for 32 broadcasts this 12 months, together with the draft. The earlier document was 15 broadcasts in 1998. Of the 31 video games with at the least 1 million viewers, 24 of them concerned the Fever and Clark.

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