Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler has long invoked 'Lawler's Law' — his belief that the first basketball team to score 100 points in a game wins.
100, Oklahoma City Thunder 99.
Now, with the Clippers in the playoffs and the 80-year-old broadcaster calling the final games of his career, we started wondering: How often did Lawler’s Law hold true? Lawler’s folksy catchphrase is among the many found in local sportscasting. Lakers fans knew a game was over when Chick Hearn said the game was in the refrigerator: “The door’s closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter’s getting hard and the jello’s jiggling.” Jaime Jarrin tells Dodgers fans when a ball clears the fences for a home run, they canA vernacular of Lawlerisms formed over four decades of Clippers games, like “Bingo!” to mark a made three-pointer.
“We didn’t have very many fans in San Diego, believe me,” Lawler said. “So if they heard anything that you said and repeated it to you, you figured that’s pretty good.”Ralph Lawler at center court in the Sports Arena, where the Clippers played from 1984 to 1999. Lawler always endeavored to have fun despite the losing, figuring that if he remained upbeat the fans would too. Lawler often mixed in heaping doses of self-deprecating humor and jabs at his broadcast partner.
About a decade ago, teams returned to offenses that sprinted toward the basket. The three-point shot, once an ABA gimmick that the NBA adopted in 1979, became a primary mode of scoring.This season, the league engineered an even higher-scoring style of play by instructing referees to allow offenses more “freedom of movement.” That gave defenses less leeway to bump, grab or otherwise irritate offensive players without being called for fouls.
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