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Sold-out arenas, 3.3 million viewers for Game 7: The WNBA postseason surges in numbers

By | November 4, 2026 - 12:41 PM

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The Golden State Valkyries face the Indiana Fever at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. The WNBA saw record postseason viewership in 2026, with the Finals drawing the largest television audience since 1999. (Photo by Sarah Stierch/Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0)

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(AP) — The WNBA Finals was the most watched since 1999 with an average of 1.88 million people viewing the seven-game series that Golden State won over Atlanta in a decisive Game 7.

That game averaged 3.3 million viewers, making it the most watched WNBA postseason game ever. It was up 128% from last season’s clinching game between Las Vegas and Phoenix that the Aces won.

All seven games in the series were sold out, including Game 6, which was played at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

The Finals capped the WNBA’s most-watched postseason since its inaugural season in 1997, averaging 1.49 million viewers, up 27% from last year.
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