One comes easily to mind: Listening to Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn. Everybody, it seems, has a Chick story. Most are funny, a few are sad, all are memorable. It sometimes seems as if Chick ...

non-call by an official when significant contact has occurred. A dunk with authority, also Chick was the first to use the phrase "slam dunk". The Lakers are playing terribly.

The Portland Trail Blazers are mourning the loss of their former radio announcer Brian Wheeler, who passed away after an ...

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 the Lakers’ play-by-play ...

If you arrive via rideshare service, be sure to be dropped off and picked up Chick Hearn Court between L.A. Live Way and ...

Calling Portland Trail Blazers games on the radio with Brian Wheeler took some getting used to for broadcast partner Antonio Harvey when the duo formed in 2005. Wheeler’s exuberant, bombastic, loud ...

His love for the game and passion for the Trail Blazers came through in every radio call,” the Blazers said in a statement.

Brian Wheeler, the longtime radio voice of the Portland Trail Blazers, passed away Friday after a long illness. He was 62.

Everything about Chick Hearn was larger than life, including his reputation which was already imposing when I first heard of him in 1969. Chick was in his ninth season as the voice of the Lakers ...

One that ranks at the top of this truly extensive list was making sure Chick Hearn was always the voice, and even for a while, the face of the franchise. While it has now been eight years since we ...

The phone would ring. It would be Chick Hearn, my friend and traveling partner. "How much more time do we have to kill,?" he would ask. "I can't wait to get to training camp." The traveling group ...