Chick Hearn

Francis Dayle Chick Hearn was an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the longtime playbyplay announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, Hearn was 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, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots taken Of note is that most of Hearns 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.

Hearn was born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, in west suburban Chicago, and attended high school at Marmion Academy and college at Bradley University. He earned the nickname Chick while an Amateur Athletic Union basketball player at Bradley, when teammates played a prank on him giving him a shoebox to see his surprised reaction when he opened it and found not sneakers inside, but instead a dead chicken.

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