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Chick Hearn Rap

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Nobody scours YouTube for the best hoops stuff like J.E. Skeets, the Steve Nash of NBA bloggers. (Note the Canadian shout out there.) I don’t subscribe to many podcasts, but The Basketball Jones is one I don’t miss.

Skeets found this first and pointed it out to me, and I’m posting it here as well because I feel I must. Enjoy a Chick Hearn mashup.


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  5. Gatinho says

    Also, although the book is decent at best, when you buy” Chick: His Unpublished Memoirs and the Memories of Those Who Loved Him” you get a free audio CD that includes famous calls and of course the aforementioned Chick Hearn rap. A cool little piece of memorabilia.

  6. ryan says

    Here some of my favorite “chick-isms”. So many of these terms have become terms anonymous with basketball; its amazing.

    “Airball”
    “garbage time”
    “baby hook”
    “bunny hop”
    “building a house”–I used to say that on the playground, usually about my self.

    “slam dunk”
    “dribble drive”
    “charity stripe”
    “it’ll count if it goes… it doesn’t go”
    “didn’t draw Iron”
    “fly swatted”
    “give and go”
    “the good lord and four disciples couldn’t beat the lakers tonight”
    “hangs in the air”
    “the mustard’s off the hot dog” (one of my favorites)
    “ticky tack”
    “if he hit his wife that hard she wouldn’t even call the police” –never heard that one, crude but classic chick.

    “no harm no foul”– again thats one of those you use on the playground

    “no look pass”
    “picked his pocket”
    “stutter step”

    i could go on and on. Here is a website that lists them.

    http://www.abbaroo.com/lakers/chick.html