{"id":474172,"date":"2026-09-24T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:38:10","slug":"lawrence-tanter-longtime-los-angeles-lakers-pa-announcer-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474172\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Tanter, longtime Los Angeles Lakers PA announcer, dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Tanter, longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer, dies at 76<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790253490_826_853c053a-375d-4f49-afda-568da22e36ea_1788456325.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Caitlyn Scott\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer Lawrence Tanter has died at the age of 76, the team announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdqBIdImN0K\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a>, the team said, &#8220;We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of legendary Lakers public address announcer Lawrence Tanter. For 43 years, LT&#8217;s voice served as the soundtrack to Lakers games at the arena. He will be remembered as a cherished member of the Lakers family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=109350X1567024&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnba%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F50017967%2Flong-lakers-public-address-announcer-lawrence-tanter-dies&amp;sref=&amp;xcust=nFRE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN<\/a>, the announcer retired from his courtside post in June, where he had &#8220;manned the microphone in L.A. since the &#8216;Showtime&#8217; days of the 1980s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Tanter suffered a stroke late in the regular season and missed the Lakers&#8217; last six home games. He also missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The tenured announcer entered hospice care last month, ESPN continued.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Officials said Tanter was the longest-tenured PA announcer in the Lakers&#8217; history, being a part of 10 Lakers championships and 16 Western Conference titles. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Jason Barquero, the PA announcer for the Lakers&#8217; G League affiliate, finished last season in Tanter&#8217;s absence. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The team has yet to name a successor to Tanter for the upcoming 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence Tanter, longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer, dies at 76 Longtime Los Angeles Lakers public-address announcer Lawrence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[184931,750,186508,418,186507,48,52,51,1415,80223,3376,147726,186506,47,50,2497,49,51836,184932,3335,5767,427,435,10605,186509,72],"class_list":["post-474172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-csnd","tag-espn","tag-g-league-affiliate","tag-history","tag-hospice-care-last-month","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers","tag-lakers-game","tag-last-season","tag-lawrence-tanter","tag-longest-tenured-pa-announcer","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lt","tag-nd","tag-official","tag-post","tag-team","tag-united-states","tag-voice","tag-western-conference-title","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}