By Monday, Macdonald was back to the grind. Hockey, baseball, arena league football, surfing, volleyball — name it and Bill Macdonald called it. That night, a West Coast Conference basketball game between Portland and San Diego needed a broadcaster and Macdonald showed up at the Jenny Craig Pavilion — the “Slim Gym” — armed with stats about Portland’s Pooh Jeter and USD’s Ross DeRogatis. He’d spoken to the Sports Information Directors. He called the game that night, packed up and moved on to whatever pregame show or gymnastics meet was next. The Lakers gig, he thought, was a one-off. Twenty years later, before a Lakers game against the Trail Blazers in Portland, Macdonald started telling that story and Lantz cut him off. “When you walked in,” Lantz said with a grin, “they said, ‘Didn’t you do Kobe’s 81-point game last night?’”
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