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.

Since Hearn’s death in 2002, the Lakers have designated their home game closest to the Nov. 27 anniversary of his birth in 1916 as Chick Hearn Night. Hearn was […] advertisement ...

"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 ...