Greta Wire Shorty: The Bronco Chase That Hijacked the NBA Finals
6/4/20265 min
This Shorty uses the NBA Finals as a jumping-off point to revisit one of the strangest live-TV moments in American history: June 17, 1994, when the Knicks and Rockets were playing in the Finals while O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco chase unfolded in real time. Greta focuses on the sheer absurdity of the moment, describing how NBC kept interrupting or splitting the screen between the game and the slow-speed police pursuit, leaving producers and viewers stuck between a championship broadcast and a possible national tragedy. The piece is really about memory and cultural shock. Greta explains that for people old enough to remember it, the Bronco chase permanently fused itself to that NBA game, no matter who won or what happened on the court. She closes with a bit of macabre trivia, noting that the Bronco itself still exists and is now displayed in a Tennessee museum, turning one of the most surreal nights in televised sports and crime history into a literal exhibit. Got a comment or question? Send it to EmailGreta@newsmax.com and it may be used or answered on an upcoming episode. You can watch the video version of the “Greta Wire” podcast on NEWSMAX social media channels, plus YouTube and Rumble, on the same afternoon the audio version launches. Listen to Newsmax LIVE and subscribe to our entire podcast lineup at http://Newsmax.com/Listen Don’t miss Greta every weekday on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” at 4 PM ET, only on NEWSMAX TV. Watch the show anytime, anywhere with NEWSMAX+. Get your 15-day free trial of NEWSMAX+ at http://NewsmaxPlus.com Follow Greta on Social Media: Facebook: / greta X/Twitter: https://x.com/greta Instagram: / greta TikTok: / greta.com Follow NEWSMAX on Social Media: Facebook: http://nws.mx/FB X/Twitter: http://nws.mx/twitter Instagram: http://nws.mx/IG YouTube: / newsmaxtv Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsmaxTV TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@NEWSMAX GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/newsmax Threads: http://threads.net/@NEWSMAX Telegram: http://t.me/newsmax BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/newsmax.com Parler: http://app.parler.com/newsmax THANKS FOR LISTENING! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Greta Van Susteren· Host0:28
[guitar strumming] Okay, let's talk NBA and under the h- headline, you can't make this up, and you really can't. So are you gonna watch the Knicks play? Uh, good for you. But, um, the reason what comes to mind whenever I hear about the NBA Finals is one thing, O.J. Simpson. Now, why would I think about O.J. Simpson? He played football. He didn't play basketball. Well, the reason is because the most freakish thing happened on June 17th, 1994. You're not gonna believe this, but the Knicks were playing at the time, they were in Madison Square Garden, and they were playing the Rockets in a series. The game ultimately on June 17th, the Knicks, um, the Knicks won 91-84. But they were playing the Rockets, but during the course of the game, it was broadcast by NBC, is we couldn't watch the whole game because they kept interrupting the game because something else was going on. And s- in some instances, there was a split screen. The, the Rocket- the Rockets and the Knicks on one side of the screen,