Last night’s New York Knicks-Golden State Warriors game on MSG Network — the first regular season game of the 2011-12 season for MSG — scored a 3.15 Nielsen household rating, the highest household rating for a regular season game started at 10:00 p.m. or later since March 31, 2000 when the team played in Vancouver (3.16 HH). MSG Network is part of The Madison Square Garden Company (Nasdaq:MSG – News), a fully-integrated sports, media and entertainment business. Last season, the first Knicks regular season west coast game (November 17, 2010 at Sacramento) scored a 0.86 HH rating and for the entire 2010-11 Knicks season, regular season west coast games averaged a 1.00 HH rating. The game also outperformed last season’s first regular season Knicks game on MSG Network when the team played at Toronto (October 27, 2010) and garnered a 1.65 HH rating.