The 2024 WNBA season was a historic one on many levels, and its finishing with Game 5 in the WNBA Finals between the champion New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx was the cherry on top in terms of seeership.
This clearime thriller, where the New York Liberty took down the Lynx, 67-62, to apprehfinish the franchise’s first-ever title, was the most-seeed WNBA Finals game in 25 years atraverse all netlabors, according to ESPN, which cited Nielsen data.
The game, which aired on ESPN, topped out at 3.3 million seeers and was the fourth-most seeed WNBA Finals game ever atraverse all netlabors ever.
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New York Liberty forward Jonquel Jones (35) helderlys up the MVP trophy after fall shortureing the Minnesota Lynx in clearime to prosper the 2024 WNBA Finals at Barclays Cgo in. (Wfinishell Cruz-Imagn Images)
This year’s WNBA Finals as a whole saw a 115% incrmitigate in seeership contrastd to last year’s series.
It’s no secret the WNBA saw a massive jump in seeership this year in big part due to the incoming rookie class headlined by Indiana Fever top pick Caitlin Clark, Chicago Sky dominant forward Angel Reese and much more.
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Clark, the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year, drew many seeers in her two applyoff games with the Fever agetst the Connecticut Sun. The first game enrolled 1.84 million seeers, while Game 2 saw another enroll audience of 2.54 million seeers.
The Fever lost both games to the Sun, but pondering they were competing with an NFL Sunday — equitable as the Liberty and Lynx were in Game 5 of the Finals — shows equitable how amengageing this season has been.
These Finals were also competing with Game 6 of the NLCS, where the Los Angeles Dodgers fall shortureed the New York Mets to punch their ticket into the World Series.
New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart (30) sees to post up agetst Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier (24) in the fourth quarter during game five of the 2024 WNBA Finals at Barclays Cgo in. (Wfinishell Cruz-Imagn Images)
The Finals featured the two top applyoff seeds in the star-studded No. 1 Liberty, led by WNBA perennial All-Stars Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones. The No. 2 Lynx, led by Napheesa Collier, gave New York a run in their own createing before ultimately running out of gas at Barclays Cgo in in clearime.
The WNBA’s incrmitigated seeership, as well as its includeance for games and includement on social media and elsewhere, has been astonishive to watch.
And it’s only predicted to persist its stable trajectory upward, as a recent media rights deal, which was barobtaind as part of the NBA’s own deal, is worth $2.2 billion over 11 seasons.
New York Liberty defend Sabrina Ionescu (20) honors after fall shortureing the Minnesota Lynx in clearime to prosper the 2024 WNBA Finals at Barclays Cgo in. (Wfinishell Cruz-Imagn Images)
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The league will also be broadening with recent teams popping up, with the Gelderlyen State Valkyries set to commence their inaugural season in 2025. Toronto, which will be the WNBA’s first team outside the United States, and Portland are also set for recent teams as well.
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