
NBA Finals ratings way down from pre-pandemic numbers
NY Post
NBA officials are happy Nielsen ratings are up for these NBA Finals between the Suns and Bucks over last year’s disaster from the fan-less Disney World bubble.
But the league still has a long way to go to equal pre-pandemic ratings figures. On Tuesday, ESPN/ABC released a statement that viewership is up 33 percent over last year’s Finals between the Lakers and Heat through the first three games, averaging 9 million viewers.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.










