By Dan Shanoff | The Athletic, 2026-06-16 22:25:06

纽约尼克斯队的胜利狂欢中,如今又多了一项令人瞩目的NBA至高成就。
正如前四场比赛庞大的观众基数所预示的那样,2026年NBA总决赛最终成为了自迈克尔·乔丹 (Michael Jordan) 芝加哥公牛队时代谢幕战以来,该联盟收视率最高的总决赛系列赛。
尽管系列赛仅打了五场,但尼克斯队(试图终结53年的冠军荒)与由7英尺4英寸神童维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 领衔的圣安东尼奥马刺队之间的对决,依然让观众们如痴如醉。
第五场比赛平均吸引了2450万观众收看,使其成为自1998年有乔丹参赛的总决赛以来,收视率最高的总决赛第五场。比赛的收视人数在尼克斯队锁定胜局夺冠时达到3300万的峰值,观众们也一同见证了ABC解说员迈克·布林 (Mike Breen) 奉献的又一载入史册的经典解说。
赛场上球星的号召力、场边星光熠熠的名人拥趸、球馆内(在支付了天价门票后,尤其是在纽约)喧嚣的球迷、麦迪逊广场花园外更加狂热的人群、半个世纪以来积压的夺冠渴望,以及纽约人特有的那股傲骨与魅力,这些独特元素的交织,足以吸引比勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 与斯蒂芬·库里 (Steph Curry) 巅峰对决时代、波士顿凯尔特人队与洛杉矶湖人队重燃联盟最传奇宿敌恩怨时,或是21世纪任何其他总决赛更多的球迷驻足观看。
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Knicks’ championship run powers most-watched NBA Finals since Michael Jordan’s finale

Add another crowning NBA achievement to the New York Knicks’ triumphalism.
As expected based on the massive audiences through the first four games, the 2026 NBA Finals finished as the league’s most-watched championship series since the final installment of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls era.
Despite going only five games, audiences were enthralled by the matchup between the Knicks — trying to end a 53-year title drought — and the San Antonio Spurs, led by 7-foot-4 prodigy Victor Wembanyama.
Game 5 drew an average of 24.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched NBA Finals Game 5 since the 1998 finals featuring Jordan. The game’s audience peaked at 33 million, tuned in to see the Knicks clinch their title, complete with an instant-classic call from ABC’s Mike Breen.
The unique combination of star power on the court, celebrities ringing the sidelines, raucous fans inside the arenas (after paying top dollar, particularly in New York), even more raucous fans outside Madison Square Garden, a half-century of pent-up demand and the gravitational tug of New York swagger were enough to get more fans tuning in than even the best of the LeBron James-Steph Curry era, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers reigniting the league’s most storied rivalry or any other finals of the 21st century.
By Dan Shanoff, via The Athletic



