Back in the mid-1990s, after his accomplished basketball coaching career, ESPN Radio offered Ramsay a job alongside the man Ramsay calls the best play-by-play talent in the country, Jim Durham. Ramsay told Durham he wasn't sure about how to do this radio thing.

"I think we worked it out well," Ramsay said Sunday before he, Durham and Hubie Brown called Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Staples Center.

"Jim takes the action up to the score, then after the score he will pause and if I have something to say about the strategy or what a coach has done or what a player has tried that got him open, then I'll say it and then I'll give Jim the microphone back," Ramsay said. "It's kind of like handing him the ball in the frontcourt."

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During the Finals, there is more handing off. Brown is handling most of the Lakers analysis for the national broadcast and Ramsay the dissection of the Celtics' play. A year ago, Durham was bumped off the Finals broadcast team in favor of Mike Tirico. Tirico is busy with the World Cup this year, so Durham and Ramsay get to keep doing what they did all season, with an assist from Brown.

Ramsay turned 85 in February. He said he has no pressing desire to retire, but also no pressing desire to find out that he's not wanted.

"I don't want to hang around and then find out that behind the scenes they're saying, 'How are we going to tell him his time is up?' I don't want to hear that."

Ramsay said he will talk to ESPN Radio producer John Martin after the season and ask for the honest truth. "I can take it," Ramsay said, laughing.