Los Angeles ? Play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, who made phrases like “slam dunk” and “air ball” common basketball expressions during his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died Monday. He was 85.

“Chick Hearn passed away at 6:30 this evening,” Los Angeles Lakers spokesman Bob Steiner said outside Northridge Medical Center Hospital, where Hearn was taken Friday night after suffering a fall.

Hearn fell Friday in the back yard of the Encino home he shared with wife, Marge. The two would have celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on Aug. 13.

Surgeons operated twice on Saturday to relieve swelling in his brain, but he never regained consciousness.

Hearn called a record 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting in 1965 before missing one because he had to have an operation in December 2001 for a blocked aortic valve.

A member of the Hall of Fame, Hearn received a standing ovation on his 85th birthday in November during a Lakers-Bucks game.