Chick Hearn
American basketball sportscaster · United States · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1916 to 2002 · aged 85
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 41 years, as well as the team's assistant general manager for seven years beginning in 1972.
Chick Hearn is read about 162 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 14 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Spike Lee Produced Love & Basketball (2000)
Tony Richardson Directed The Loved One (1965)
Burt Young Also in ...All the Marbles and The Gambler
Paul Sorvino Also in Longshot and The Gambler
Robert Aldrich Directed ...All the Marbles (1982)
Jim Abrahams Directed Big Business (1988)- Robert Stevenson Directed The Love Bug (1969)
Gina Prince-Bythewood Directed Love & Basketball (2000)
Clyde Kusatsu Also in ...All the Marbles and Volunteers
Bernie Kopell Also in The Loved One and Half Nelson
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About this person
Hearn was the first broadcaster named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Hearn is remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, associated with colorful phrases such as slam dunk, air ball, and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular. Hearn broadcast 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Most of Hearn's games in the television era were simulcast on both radio and television, even after most teams chose to use different announcers for the different media.
