On June 17th, 1994, game 5 of the NBA Finals on NBC between the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks was interrupted by a police pursuit involving OJ Simpson.
Other networks were showing the chase live. NBC initially showed a split small screen of the chase on the bottom right corner. Eventually, the chase was full screen and the basketball game minimized.
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This annoyed me! Every network had the chase, why did NBC have to do this!? I remember jamming the “Picture and Picture” button on my remote control hoping somehow the game would get bigger.
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I heard from people that attended the game that almost everyone there and even some NBA players were keeping tabs on the chase!
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Not having MJ in the finals, NBA was probably worried about them ratings, so they got OJ!
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