NBA: the six games of the 2014-15 finals draw nearly 20 million viewers on average in the USA

The six games of the 2014-15 NBA Finals drew an average of 19.94 million viewers per game in the United States for the national free-TV channel ABC, announced multiple American media outlets on 18/06/2015. According to the American television measurement agency Nielsen, this figure represents an audience share of American households with a television of 13.9%.

Game 6 of the 2014-15 NBA Finals on 16/07/2015, in which the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers to clinch victory in the best-of-7 games series four games to two, drew an average of 23.3 million viewers on average, for a audience share of 15.9% of American households with a television.

According to info from the American sports pay-TV and media group ESPN, this is the highest average audience for an NBA Finals series since "the Michael Jordan era" in the 1990s. The six NBA finals in which Michael Jordan participated -- the last of which was in 1998 -- averaged 25.2 million viewers per series, according to ESPN.

• According to ESPN, Game 6 garnered 939,000 unique viewers to the pay-TV channel's online…