After 36 Years, They Just Gotta Have Hearn

Chick Hearn’s incredible 36-year Laker broadcast streak has come to an end, but I’m sure he didn’t take it lying down. I’ve heard rumors that Chick demanded that he be given local anesthesia during his open-heart surgery.

One can only imagine his play-by-play of the procedure: “Nurse Betty walks around the instrument table from right to left on your monitor, under pressure with the clock winding down, she holds a swab in the palm of her hand, looks left, and passes it gently to the surgeon, who drops it off the table! Ladies and gentlemen, in all my years of broadcasting, I have never seen such a display of nervousness.”

Ken Khteian

La Canada-Flintridge

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For all of us Chickaholics, the next six weeks will seem more like 36 years.

Jon White

Monrovia

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You can love him, hate him, wish The Times would remove him and send him to Nebraska, but T.J. Simers’ article on Chick was a masterpiece!

Brian Haueter

Ventura