Thursday, August 27, 2026

Caitlin Clark’s Fever-Sky Game Is Most Watched WNBA Game Since 1997 – Viewership Nearly Doubled NBA’s Overall National-Telecast Average ...

The Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game was the most watched WNBA game since the league’s opening weekend in 1997, averaging 3.31 million viewers on NBC and Peacock on Sunday.

At one point in the game the audience size surged to 3.8 million viewers, another record for a regular season contest.
The game included the league’s second-most popular player Sophie Cunningham, a tough Midwestern woman who recently spoke out against biological men in women’s sports.
And, the game was not without its drama when former NBA great Enes Kantor Freedom was escorted from the building after Sky player Natasha Cloud started screaming at him for wearing a T-shirt with the definition of woman on it.


Several WNBA coaches and players have spoken out to allow biological men in the game but for some reason player Natasha Cloud was upset with Cantor’s decision to join the league.

Sometimes, the WNBA is like strange reality show.

Here is Clark fan Ben Daniel discussing the massive number of viewers Caitlin and Sophie are bringing in to the league.



Grok had this to say about the latest Fever’s record.

** It nearly doubled the NBA’s overall national-telecast average of 1.78 million viewers across ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock, and Prime Video.

** It landed right in line with NBC’s flagship Sunday Night Basketball package, which averaged 3.4 million viewers across its 11 games.

** The NBA had 19 regular-season telecasts that reached at least 3 million viewers; this Fever game would have ranked among them. High-end examples from that group included a Celtics-Lakers Sunday night game at 5.6 million and a Knicks-Thunder game at 3.4 million.
Caitlin Clark is changing women’s sports.
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