Only Chick Hearn, 84 years old at the time ... As we pulled up to a corner, a crew was working on the street, the sounds of their jackhammers on the asphalt reverberating against the bus windows.

The Lakers will conduct their annual Chick Hearn Night on Saturday, honoring their late longtime broadcaster at the game against the Denver Nuggets at Crypto.com Arena. Since Hearn's death in 2002 ...

"Hearn doesn't share a room," Chick is supposed to have announced and stomped across the street to another hotel. In an era of larger-than-life announcers like Marv Albert in New York and Johnny ...