8.5 Million Canadians Watched Final Moments Of Game 5

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:53 pm

Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals drew an average audience of 6.4 million viewers in Canada with 8.5 million watching the end of the game. The total audience in Canada for the game was 13.4 million.

The game ranks as the 21st most watched sports broadcast on record in Canada and the most-watched NBA game ever in Canada. The previous high was 1.9 million less.

Via Sportsnet

wallus · Post #2 » by **wallus** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:20 pm

How many cheered and waved when Durant went down?

TKainZero · Post #3 » by **TKainZero** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:27 am

I don’t know how many people live in Canada off the top of my head. But this seems like a big percentage of the country. I’d imagine there is something like 40-80 million people in Canada.

bboyskinnylegs · Post #4 » by **bboyskinnylegs** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:00 am

TKainZero wrote:I don’t know how many people live in Canada off the top of my head. But this seems like a big percentage of the country. I’d imagine there is something like 40-80 million people in Canada.

~37 million

LAKESHOW · Post #5 » by **LAKESHOW** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:09 am

Awesome to see all of Canada watch this game.

TKainZero · Post #6 » by **TKainZero** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:24 am

bboyskinnylegs wrote:
TKainZero wrote:I don’t know how many people live in Canada off the top of my head. But this seems like a big percentage of the country. I’d imagine there is something like 40-80 million people in Canada.

~37 million

My goodness. That makes this even more impressive.

Big cheers to Canada

Senor Waffles · Post #7 » by **Senor Waffles** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:54 am

wallus wrote:How many cheered and waved when Durant went down?

Pretty small %wise, esp. when you consider that a lot of the cheering was for the play and not the injury.

Still, the fact that you did see people waving at KD directly after means there were too many wastemans at the game.

binjumper · Post #8 » by **binjumper** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:15 pm

wallus wrote:How many cheered and waved when Durant went down?

get over it you diva.

handyandy · Post #9 » by **handyandy** » Wed Jun 12, 2019 5:50 pm

binjumper wrote:
wallus wrote:How many cheered and waved when Durant went down?

get over it you diva.

Lets not forget that Fred VV & Kevin D got into an argument 2 minutes prior to KD going down. So fans could have been cheering that. Some fans closer to the court were not acting properly (throat slashes) as cheering any injury is not right and classless, but to say that all the fans were cheering for the injury is wrong. The fans chanted "KD KD" as he was leaving the floor. I love the raptors but certainly not TORONTO.