Unlike most Lakers fans, I did not grow up listening to Chick Hearn. My husband, Dick, and I moved to Los Angeles from Washington DC in 1972. Dick became the new Executive Producer at KTTV.

Hairston was hailed by legendary broadcaster Chick Hearn as "one of the fiercest rebounders the Lakers have ever had," while ...

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 ...