Lakers games continue to attract huge television ratings for the NBA, a league that has been struggling with low ratings and bad publicity.

They took down the red-hot Los Angeles Lakers who had won eight straight games prior to meeting on Saturday night. It was a clash of two teams who have title aspirations this year. The Celtics think that they are good enough to be the first team in almost a decade to repeat as champions.

The game, which peaked at 5.3 million viewers, averaged 4.61 million viewers on ABC, topping the previous high of 4.64 million for a Celtics-Cleveland Cavaliers game in Feb. 2018. It was also the most-watched primetime program on Saturday night.