Tuesday night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder, in which LeBron James broke the league's all-time scoring record, averaged 2.98 million viewers and a 1.7 rating on TNT.
The numbers represent TNT's most-watched regular season game outside of opening night and the Clippers-Lakers bubble restart since 2018. Outside of opening night and Christmas games, it was also the most-viewed game on cable since the Blazers-Lakers on January 31, 2020.
The game peaked with 3.7 million viewers from 11:45 pm to midnight.