Update: the game averaged 20.528 million viewers, on par with last year’s game 5.
Game 5 of the NBA Finals where the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors to extend the series to a 6th game averaged a 14.2 overnight rating. That’s the highest overnight rating for the series so far, and even versus last year’s 14.2 overnight for game 5 of the 2015 NBA Finals.
Top local markets on ABC: Game 5
| Market | Rating |
| Cleveland | 38.5 |
| San Francisco-Oakland* | 36.9 |
| Sacramento | 20.4 |
| Miami | 20.1 |
| Columbus | 19.6 |
| Memphis | 19.4 |
| Atlanta | 19.1 |
| San Antonio | 18.0 |
| Portland | 17.5 |
| Birmingham | 16.4 |
*The 36.9 rating in San Francisco-Oakland is the second-highest rated NBA game ever in the market on ABC.
Overnight household rating = the live+same day DVR overnight metered-market household rating from the top 56 Nielsen television markets. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) account for about 70% of the US TV-viewing population. The overnight household rating is the percentage of the households that were tuned-in in those markets