Today's episode of The Ryan Racylapodcast on the Ringer podcast network is brought to you by State Farm.

Just like basketball, guess what folks? The game of life is unpredictable. Talk to a State Farm agent and get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected.

I did not expect the Lakers to almost lose to a Denver group speaking to teammates. Usually it'd be Yokecitch, maybe Millsap, Grant.

Gary Harris hasn't been around. Jamal Murray has been back, but Murray was on a minute's restriction. So once he hit 25 minutes, they didn't bring him.

So the closing group for a really good chunk of the fourth quarter was Plumley, Bulbow, Dozier, Bates, Dup, and Morris.

And the Lakers had AD, Kuzma. They took out their Biggs.

So that AD closing group, AD Kuzma, who hit the game winner LeBron, Danny Green, who had a couple big shots as well. And then they left waiters in.

So get yourself some teammates like that who can get it done against the backup teammates. That's the plan. Very LA based LA guy now, my LA Kings, the 405, what's up?

Don't take the 10 if you can get a team who can help you navigate the unexpected talk to a state farm agent today, Mike Trudell, Lakers reporter, the cover him for a while.

He's great. No, no, no, and then Yovon, Booha of the athletic who covers the clippers. And then we'll do life advice at the very end.

But today's open is brief. And I hope not too repetitive. But I just felt like I had to do a little bit on college football.

Before we get started on all the NBA stuff. And I'll admit, as I was writing this out a little bit, I'm like, you know, you've touched on a lot of this stuff before. Okay.

Although comedians can run around with the same act for like months. So, you know, when you're doing a radio show every single day, like sometimes I would think about that.

And I go, just think of your stand up guy, you kind of shape a five or 10 minute set and just do it over. You can do it twice in the same night.

And nobody gets on your case. So let's just try to tackle like three different things here.

The first is for the last two weeks, I'm getting text and call saying college football is done. And I was like, well, how do you know that?

Because I don't think it's done done. And as I taped this now, even though on Sunday night with bills, like, yeah, sounds like it might be done. It's still not done.

And who knows, but it's time you listen to it could be done. But what's done? Is it done for the season? No, I think everything would be punting it to the spring.

And the complications with that are still many. It's not ideal, but it's still better. Much like when the NBA was going through its deal to try to figure out

if they were going to come back and play it all under what circumstances would people want to play in a bubble and there was all this unrest and people were hearing different things. And then you go, wait, do the players not want to play because what I've heard is most of players do want to play.

But a lot of this coverage makes me think the players don't want to play. So what the hell is happening there? Then they put it to a vote. It's an overwhelming vote. The players are going to come back and play because guess what?

They didn't want to lose like 650 million in salary. Okay. So they wanted to come back. They're going to play the NBA thing is going to work out.

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