Clippers Broadcaster Ralph Lawler Will Be Joined By Bill Walton For His Last Regular Season Game

Los Angeles Clippers games are going to sound way, way different next season. That’s because at the end of the 2018-19 campaign, legendary announcer Ralph Lawler will call it a career. Lawler announced the decision before the year tipped off, meaning he’d hang up his headset at the conclusion of his 40th season calling Clippers games.

Lawler is a legend, and like many of the other greats of the broadcasting game, he’s entered the rarified air where he’s as big of a part of the experience of watching a team play games as some of the players. Hearing Lawler scream “Oh me, oh my!” (which doubles as his Twitter handle) or joyously scream “The lob, the jam!” are fixtures of Clippers games, and once a team gets to 100 points first, you can bet that Lawler’s Law will come into play.
It remains to be seen if the Clippers will make the postseason — L.A. currently sits in eighth and has a four-game cushion on the ninth-seeded Sacramento Kings — but we do know that Lawler’s final regular season game is going to be a blast. That’s because, on Thursday afternoon, it was announced Lawler will be joined by none other than his former broadcast partner Bill Walton for the team’s final game of the year, an April 10 tilt against the Utah Jazz.

Walton has spent the last few years turning into the most colorful college basketball analyst in the game, turning late night Pac-12 broadcasts for ESPN into delightful tests of broadcast partner Dave Pasch’s patience. Before that, though, he teamed up with Lawler for Clippers games, and while it remains to be seen if Walton will go full Walton for the game, it will be great watching the two team up one final time.