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What: “Hot Rod Hundley--You Gotta Love It, Baby” Author: Rod Hundley, with Tom McEachin (Sports Publishing, $22.95) Reflecting on his more than 40 years in the NBA as a player (with the Lakers) and broadcaster (for the Lakers, Suns and Jazz), Rod Hundley, one of sport’s great quipsters, has this to say about each time he visits the Forum: “I get a chill every time I . . . look up to see my No. 33 hanging from the rafters, right up there with Elgin Baylor’s 22, Jerry West’s 44 and Wilt Chamberlain’s 13. . . .
April 28, 1999
Hot Rod Hundley, the former NBA player who broadcast Jazz games in New Orleans and Utah for 35 years as well as played and broadcast for the Lakers, died Friday.
March 27, 2015
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Hot Rod Hundley played with the Minneapolis Lakers and on the first three Laker teams in Los Angeles in the early 1960s.
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He missed a shot at changing NBA history
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March 13, 2009
Hot Rod Hundley, while playing for the Minneapolis Lakers, recalled the first time he played against Bob Cousy, the famous Boston Celtic player, in “Tall Tales” by Terry Pluto: “He was my idol and when he said hello, it was as if my heart stopped beating.
Dec. 3, 1995
Hot Rod Hundley, in “Tall Tales” by Terry Pluto, recalled the first time he ever played against Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics: “It was a thrill for me.
Sept. 11, 1994
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Dec. 8, 2009
Back in January of 1960, the Minneapolis Lakers nearly met disaster as their chartered DC-3 met with electrical failure.
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