Basketball

10/25/2026 |  Site for Game 6 of WNBA Finals Still Up in Air (Front Office Sports) The Valkyries’ win Saturday over the Dream tied the series at 2–2, guaranteeing a Game 6 of the WNBA Finals back in Atlanta. But the Dream may have to play at a small venue unless the league makes another last-minute change.

10/23/2026 |  Dream Deliver Finals Atmosphere to Match State Farm Arena Move (Front Office Sports) A week before the WNBA Finals tipped off, it wasn’t clear where the Dream would be hosting their games.
But on Wednesday for Game 3, Atlanta’s first WNBA Finals appearance since 2013, the team and its fans delivered.
The Dream sold out the 17,000-seat State Farm Arena, despite playing all of their regular-season games at the 3,500-seat Gateway Center. They had played their first three home playoff games in State Farm Arena, but averaged less than 10,000 fans per game as the team limited capacity.

10/23/2026 |  WNBA Finals sets another viewership mark in rescheduled Game 3 (Sports Media Watch) The WNBA Finals set another viewership mark in Game 3.
Wednesday’s Valkyries-Dream WNBA Finals Game 3 averaged 1.71 million viewers, combining a Nielsen-measured linear audience on USA Network and CNBC with an Adobe Analytics-measured streaming audience on Peacock — marking the largest audience for Game 3 of the Finals since the winner-take-all Liberty-Comets on NBC in 1999 (3.25M).

10/22/2026 |  Sixers-Knicks delivers banner NBA Opening Night audience for NBC (Sports Media Watch) The Knicks’ title run produced another NBA viewership milestone, as their ring night — and LeBron James’ Sixers debut — set an Opening Night mark.
Tuesday’s Sixers-Knicks NBA Opening Night game averaged 7.71 million viewers on NBC across a Nielsen-measured linear audience (5.98M) and streaming viewership tracked by Adobe Analytics (1.7M), officially marking the largest Opening Night NBA audience on record, excluding the lockout-delayed 2011-12 season that began on Christmas Day.

10/21/2026 |  WNBA Finals opens with Game 1 viewership high (Sports Media Watch) Featuring one of the best-known women’s basketball players in Angel Reese, and airing on NBC for the first time in 24 years, the WNBA Finals opened at a viewership high.