MUMBAI: The final NBA match between The Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics on ABC has fetched a record Nielsen preliminary overnight rating of 18.2.

It was the Los Angeles Lakers that beat the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Championship while an average 18.8 million viewers watched the match from 9 to 11 pm.
 
The Los Angeles Lakers- Boston Celtics match has been the highest-rated NBA Finals game ever on ABC after the Lakers-Pistons game five in 2005 that pocketed a 15.5 preliminary household rating.
 
ABC, thus, surely drove in all the eyeballs amongst the 18-49 and 18-34 viewership gaze while original programming on other channels lost ground.
 
For instance, . Fox‘s "So You Think You Can Dance" slid 15 per cent to a 2.2/6 rating among 18-49-age-olds while NBC‘s "100 Questions" garnered approximately one-third of the "Dance" numbers at 0.7/2.