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Chick Hearn has probably called his last game, doctor says By ANDREW BRIDGESAssociated Press Writer August 3, 2002 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Longtime Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn has probably called his last game, his neurologist said Saturday after performing surgery for brain hemorrhaging. ``If he has a full recovery in terms of his motor functions he will very likely have speech difficulty, so I will foresee that he will have a difficulty to be announcing,'' the neurologist, Dr. Asher Taban, told reporters outside Northridge Hospital Medical Center. Asked if the 85-year-old Hearn had called his last game, Dr. Taban...