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Lawrence Tanter, the LA Lakers' announcer for more than 40 years, has died

KABC / ABC7 Los Angeles and WWL-TV 4 (Tegna, New Orleans) describe the same event in different terms.

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What happened From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Kobe Bryant to Le Bron James and Luka Doncic, Tanter had a front-row seat to some of basketball's greatest stars.
The headline split WBIR10 (Tegna, Knoxville) frames it as "Lawrence Tanter, the LA Lakers' announcer for more than 40 years, has died". KABC / ABC7 Los Angeles frames it as "Longtime Lakers public address announcer Lawrence Tanter dies at 76".
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WBIR10 (Tegna, Knoxville)News report · Sep 24, 8:43 AM

Lawrence Tanter, the LA Lakers' announcer for more than 40 years, has died

From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Kobe Bryant to Le Bron James and Luka Doncic, Tanter had a front-row seat to some of basketball's greatest stars.

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WBAL Baltimore (Hearst)News report · Sep 24, 10:56 AM

Lawrence Tanter, longtime Los Angeles Lakers PA announcer, dies at 76

Longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer Lawrence Tanter has died at the age of 76, the team announced Wednesday.

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KABC / ABC7 Los AngelesNews report · Sep 24, 7:12 AM

Longtime Lakers public address announcer Lawrence Tanter dies at 76

Longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer Lawrence Tanter has died, the team announced.

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Sep 24, 7:12 AM: KABC / ABC7 Los Angeles joined the source map.

Sep 24, 8:43 AM: WBIR10 (Tegna, Knoxville) joined the source map.

Sep 24, 10:56 AM: WBAL Baltimore (Hearst) joined the source map.

Now: score hidden until the source match is cleaner. Story health is developing · 15 sources · 1 bucket.