{"id":683870,"date":"2026-03-28T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:36:03","slug":"lakers-pa-announcer-lawrence-tanter-misses-game-because-of-health-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683870\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 PA announcer Lawrence Tanter misses game because of \u2018health matter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:NY Post;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"NY Post\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/46c6ce20-b635-11ee-babf-0468df94f866.png\"\/><\/a>Sat, March 28, 2026 at 3:11 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9011ce32ac4acb01d594585752857574.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When the Lakers hosted the Nets on Friday, there was an iconic deep voice missing inside of Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/01\/17\/sports\/lakers-hold-moment-of-silence-for-warriors-coach-dejan-milojevic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:public address announcer Lawrence Tanter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">public address announcer Lawrence Tanter<\/a> wasn\u2019t in attendance for Friday\u2019s game as he recovered from a health matter, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Longtime franchise public address announcer Lawrence Tanter wasn\u2019t in attendance for Friday\u2019s game as he recovered from a health matter, the team announced. AP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"778\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9ddf00372013e1ecb7004a27c653fb2f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Longtime franchise public address announcer Lawrence Tanter wasn\u2019t in attendance for Friday\u2019s game as he recovered from a health matter, the team announced. AP<\/p>\n<p>Jason Barquero filled in for Tanter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/08\/sports\/rob-pelinka-and-jeanie-buss-will-lead-front-office-expansion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lakers organization;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Lakers organization<\/a> is wishing Lawrence all the best in his recovery,\u201d the Lakers said in a statement, \u201cand we look forward to welcoming him back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tanter, 76, has been the Lakers\u2019 PA announcer since the 1982-83 season.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/lakers-announcer-stu-lantz-caught-trolling-l-a-on-hot-mic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:broadcast analyst Stu Lantz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">broadcast analyst Stu Lantz<\/a> also wasn\u2019t at Friday\u2019s game because he was under the weather, with five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher filling in for Lantz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, March 28, 2026 at 3:11 AM UTC When the Lakers hosted the Nets on Friday, there was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,86719,4034,1698,300,4044,84398,251,150,4033,4043,6,86718,26912],"class_list":{"0":"post-683870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-health-matter","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-lakers","12":"tag-lakers","13":"tag-lalakers","14":"tag-lawrence-tanter","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleslakers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-public-address-announcer","21":"tag-stu-lantz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116306127259568275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}