Air-Ball, Slam-Dunk

[Rick H Kennerly]

|o| I don't know what the evidence would be for his inventing
|o| the terms, and I suspect the popularization claim is more on target.
|o|

Dunno.   Just reporting the obit atrib.  I imagine this is one of the banes
of a career as a play-by-play broadcast guy; you don't leave very traceable
footprints on the vocabulary.   Chick Hearn was quite creative, obviously
enjoyed using the language in new and interesting ways, and kept a lively
side patter running during his PBP.  However many games in a season x 40
years would be a lot of tape to sift for evidence one way or the other.

Probably better for being remembered as a possible for these than a definite
for "look at that little porchmonkey run."

rhk