Clippers' Ralph Lawler to call final regular season game with Bill Walton on April 10

The Los Angeles Clippers will celebrate Ralph Lawler Night in honor of the legendary broadcaster, as the team plays its last regular season home game on Thursday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m.  It is only appropriate that Lawler will call that final game with his longtime friend and former broadcast partner Bill Walton joining him to provide commentary, and plenty of anticipated humor.  The game will be shown on Fox Sports Prime Ticket.

The first 10,000 fans at the game on Ralph Lawler Night will receive Ralph Lawler bobbleheads. The bobbleheads will recite Lawlerisms at the push of a button, including Lawler’s Law, “Bingo,” “Oh me, oh my,” and “The lob, the jam!” They will  feature Lawler sitting at a desk, holding his preferred stick microphone.

The Clippers will honor Lawler’s 40 years as the “Voice of the Clippers” throughout the game and a halftime ceremony featuring special guests and tributes will celebrate his storied career. The Clippers will also unveil a logo honoring Lawler on the court at STAPLES Center and Clippers players will wear a special shooting shirt thanking him for his years of service.

Lawler, who will retire at the conclusion of the 2018-19 season, will call his 3,229th Clippers game on Ralph Lawler Night. He was named a 2019 Curt Gowdy Media Award recipient by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at All-Star Weekend, and over the course of his 40 seasons, he has also been awarded with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Emmys, a Telly Award, and inductions into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters (SCSB) Hall of Fame and the California Sports Hall of Fame.

Lawler has distinguished himself as one of the broadcasting industry’s elite, as he is one of a very few announcers who has called games in each of the four major U.S. Sports Leagues: NFL (Chargers), MLB (Phillies), NHL (Flyers) and NBA (Clippers and 76ers).

By Staff of TheDailySportsHerald.com and news services