NBA News: Andre Iguodala The 2015 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player

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CLEVELAND -- Who do you think should have been named Most Valuable Player of the 2015 NBA Finals? Golden State forward Andre Iguodala was named MVP of the NBA Finals following the Warriors' 105-97 deciding win Tuesday night, becoming the first player to bring in the honor without starting every game. It also results the first time that the Finals MVP has been on the same team as the regular-season MVP (Stephen Curry) since Magic Johnson claimed the Finals honor in 1980 while playing on a Los Angeles Lakers team with regular-season MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

"This has been a long ride," Iguodala said. "It's been a great season." Before this season, Iguodala had started 758 consecutive games. This season, he keep on in a reserve role until Game 4 of the Finals, when he was switched into the starting lineup for center Andrew Bogut. The honor was given to forward Andre Iguodala after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 105-97, on Tuesday at The Q to win the best-of-7 NBA Championship series, 4-2.

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Update: The NBA Finals Game 2 Hits Record 18.8M Viewers For ABC

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The Cavaliers acquired a win during the final seconds of Sunday night’s game against Golden State, and ABC is hitting nothing but 3-pointers with this year’s NBA Finals. The final ratings from Game 2 are in: 18.8 million watched in to last night’s overtime thriller from 8-11:24 PM, with a 7.3 rating in the key demo. That’s up 26% from last year’s Game 2 in total audiences and 24% in the demo, and marks the best Game 2 outcome ABC has seen since the network started carrying the series in 2003. The latest slam-dunk comes after Game 1 on Thursday, which also went into overtime, get an audience of 17.8 million viewers with a 6.9/25 rating, the most-watched Game 1 ever on ABC.

Going into Game 3 tomorrow in Cleveland, the 2015 NBA Finals is on normal up 24% in viewers and 20% in adults 18-49 over last year. How big was last night’s game? Well, with the court battle and its lead-up shows, ABC had 140% more of the demo of all the other Big 4 networks put together with a 5.3/18 to their joined 2.2/7. That’s game on. The Tony Awards were down double digits nationally from last year last night but in the home of Broadway, things were looking up. Among adults 18-49, Sunday’s broadcast of the awards ceremony on NYC’s WCBS were up 44% from last year with a 3.6 rating. That is the greatest the Tonys have done in its hometown in 3-years. 

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