Jeff Van Gundy has a lot of good stories from his years as a coach in the NBA. On Friday night during the second quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Van Gundy launched into a extremely awkward, meandering story related to the O.J. Simpson car chase from 1994.
Have a listen:
The payoff of the story is that Al Cowlings told Pat Riley the reason he drove the famous white Ford Bronco so slowly. Cowlings said O.J. Simpson wanted to listen to the end of the Game 5 of the 1994 NBA Finals on the radio before they reached their destination. Riley was the head coach of the New York Knicks at the time and they lost to the Houston Rockets in that series. Van Gundy was one of Riley’s assistants on that team.
I just don’t think the middle of a crucially important NBA Finals game was the time to tell that story. Sure, ABC had just advertised ESPN’s upcoming documentary “O.J.: Made In America” but it just seemed ill-timed given the circumstances and competitiveness of the game Van Gundy was calling.
That’s the kind of story you tell during a radio interview or during a blowout, not in the middle of a one-point game in the NBA Finals.
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