STAMFORD, Conn. – August 11, 2024 – The U.S. Men’s Basketball Team’s down to-the-wire 98-87 victory over France – the teams were separated by three points with less than three minutes to play – averaged 19.5 million viewers on NBC and Peacock to rank as the most-watched gold medal game since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics (chart below), based on fast national data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. The game peaked at 22.7 million viewers from 5-5:15 p.m. ET as Team USA pulled away for the win.
Led by Peacock, the game ranked as the most-streamed event of the Paris Olympics across NBCU digital platforms, with an average minute audience (AMA) of 2.7 million viewers.
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That Steph Curry guy is kinda popular, huh?
Steph could not have popped off any harder or at any more critical a time. Insane career defining high roll. Out of body experience
The most watched Olympic team game would have been when the “Dream Team” got beat by the college team with Webber and company but they’ve scrubbed it from the internet.
The Bilal Coulibaly effect
Most watched game of basketball since Warriors vs Cavs in 2017
Wonder who was there also 🧐
Edit: actually it was the ncaa women final from early this year but yeah
And NBC won’t allow a single clip from it to be posted on the internet
96 Olympics were the bomb
The basketball was good but where was the
“NO FLEX, ZONE”
“Like a good neighbour”
“What a pro wants, a pro needs”
“Liberty, liberty, liberty”
“Oh,oh, oh, Ozempic”
Because this is what everyone is actually watching for, right?
It was so amazing watching the last two minutes and not having a commercial every 5 seconds. I’d watch more games live if the NBA was like that.
I wonder what the total views are going to look like worldwide, is 10/15 more million views from french viewers too much?
What? An Olympic final? Way more people watched that game.
I believe most ppl tuned in just to hear the NBA anthem and to sing along “ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-basketball gimme gimme gimme the ball because Im gonna dunk it!”
Wait I think I read 20-25 million US viewers watched the 2022 World Cup final. Soccer World Cup gets more viewers than NBA and Olympic basketball?
How many people watched on Streameast?
The entire block heard me screaming I havent been more invested in a sporting event since the Bron vs Warriors 3-1 finals
Ok so I know recency bias and Warriors homer-ism are affecting me here, but I think that picture of Curry shooting over Wemby is legit a top 5 all time iconic basketball photo.
It was so fun cheering for a team with Steph on it. Who knew?
Ending was a blast but the whole tournament was so good
Besides Tatum these games were essentially perfect showcases to show why each star player is so beloved. Seemed like everybody that would typically hate on Bron, Steph, KD, Embiid etc really had their perspective shifted.
I’m sure it’ll disappear by the time the season starts but it was nice to have a moment where fans across all different fanbases came together like that
does that count people like me who watched the replay?