Dick Enberg on Angels games and Fred Hessler for the UCLA Bruins too! Honorable mention to Jerry Doggett, Ross Porter, and Don Drysdale becoming quite a good sportscaster-even with the Rams football games! Jim Healy...Nick Nickson...Those were indeed the days for the LA sports fan to be sure. For overall degree of difficulty Chick and Bob have to be the co-winners. Listening to them, you really could follow the action of a Laker game and Kings hockey action because they knew what was important to call and what did not and were absolute masters at describing the action for us fans! "In and out, heart-brrrrreak!" "Telegraphed his passes." "He got caught doing a bunny hop in a pea patch!" "Anthony 'Spud' Webb with that number one...looks like a stripe on the back of his 5'1" frame." "Leapin' Leana!!!" "Count if it goes, it goes!!!" "The Lakers will drive to the southern goal to our right." "Worthy steals the ball! Forget it baby, no one will catch him...slammmmm DUNK!!" "The game clock goes beddy-bye." "Like a motorcycle in a motor drome." "Our words-eye view." "Stay tuned the Chick 'N' Stu post-game show is next on the World Champion Lakers basketball network." "Fifteen-thousand referees are booing the call but only one of them is getting paid." "You could call that with Braille." "Nixon blows out of the back court, to the mid-court line, he may pull up and shoot a jumper...He's good there...ISN'T he though? What'd Chick tell you?" "This game is in the refrigerator! The door is closed. The light's are out. The eggs are getting cold; the butter's getting hard, and the Jell-O's jigglin!'" I remember so many of his "Chic-isms" because Chic was unforgettable.
That's because Chick was nowhere near the homer that Johnny Most was.....for example, before Dennis Johnson became a Celtic, he was with Phoenix and during a game at Boston he and Rick Robey got into a scuffle and Most called DJ a crybaby and acted like Robey did no wrong....the next year DJ is traded to Boston for Robey and almost immediately in the eyes of Johnny Most, DJ is a sweetheart and Robey becomes the "baby faced assassin " after a hard foul on DJ
Kareem looked irritated. Imagine being the best player in the league but constantly being overshadowed by Dr.J, Moses Malone, Bill Walton, Magic/Bird/Jordan. Kareem has handled it well over the years. The man could easily say he's better than Jordan without looking crazy.
@@rafikz77 The hell they did. Listen … Kareem was out there busting his buns every night! You try dragging Walton and Moses up and down the court for 48 minutes.
Chick Hearn really is the GOAT of NBA play-by-play announcers!! And Stu Lantz giving commentary beside Hearn was the perfect combo!! As a kid watching the Lakers games on TV, I'd always look forward to watching Lakers game with Chick and Stu on KCAL 9 in LA. But sometimes the Laker games played on other networks where they'd have other announcers. When that happened, I'd mute the TV and turn on the local AM radio station so I can hear Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz while watching the game. Chick Hearn will always be THE voice of the Lakers for me and for many long-time Laker fans.
sucks that kids these days won't grow up with nba on regular tv like we did when we were younger. not all families can afford cable and its a shame that many generations only get to catch a game once in a while on abc.
The way Chick Hearn called Magic's hook, with his pace , phrasing, and the inflection at the end, could not be matched by any announcer in the NBA. I feel comfortable saying that Chick Hearn was the best sports announcer of all time in any sport. I'm lucky that I grew up listening to his play-by-play calls of the Lakers games.
