June 20, 2017
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While growing up in Indianapolis, I used to fall asleep listening to WIBC radio sportscaster Bob Lamey1 broadcasting the then-ABA Indiana Pacer’s basketball games. I lived and died with those early 1970s championship teams that included Billy Keller, Freddie Lewis, Don Buse, George McGinnis, Mel Daniels, Roger Brown and “Dr. Dunk” Darnell Hillman. Whenever a Pacer got hacked by an opposing player, but the officials didn’t call a foul, Lamey hollered into his microphone—“No harm—no foul!” which is a phrase I use to this day.
Unless you’re from my hometown, you probably never heard of Bob Lamey, but you may know of a certain young radio sportscaster from another ABA team—The St. Louis Spirit—by the name of Bob Costas.2 Back then I dreamed o...
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