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Caitlin Clark's regular-season game tops WNBA Finals Game 7 despite record viewership celebration

The decisive seventh matchup of the WNBA Finals drew an average audience of 3.3 million individuals as the Golden State Valkyries defeated the Atlanta Dream to secure the championship. Although this set a new benchmark for postseason viewership and outpaced prior finals metrics from recent decades, it still fell slightly short of an August regular-season meeting between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky that attracted 3.31 million viewers across NBC and Peacock.

Early reporting had circulated higher preliminary estimates and suggested all-time historical records, but official data released jointly by the league and networks placed the thrilling finale second overall in viewership rankings since the league's initial weekend in 1997.

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