Thursday’s Clippers-Lakers NBA regular season game averaged a 2.1 rating and 3.35 million viewers on TNT, marking the ninth-largest audience of the protracted season. Six of the top nine have been Laker games, including all four of the team’s matchups with the Clippers.
The Lakers’ narrow win, which peaked with 4.1 million from 9:45-10 PM ET, was the most-watched game on TNT since the same matchup on Opening Night back in October (3.58M) and the most-watched on cable since Blazers-Lakers on ESPN January 31, the first Laker game after the passing of Kobe Bryant (4.41M).