It’s been a rough day in NBA circles and in the sports world at large. If you’ve watched a big nationally televised NBA game in the past few decades, you are no doubt familiar with Craig Sager.
The charismatic and colorful Sager was known not just for his entertaining sideline interviews, particularly legendary interviews with San Antonio Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich, but since his diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in 2014, he’s been emblematic of perseverance, grace and strength.
Sager’s son, Craig Jr., was deemed a match for a bone marrow transplant which pushed the cancer into remission, but in March of this year he announced that it had returned.