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Sager calls cancer survivor Conner before Finals

Craig Sager had some business to tend to before broadcasting his first NBA Finals game, as the reporter FaceTimed in Cleveland with University of Pittsburgh running back James Conner, a recent cancer survivor.

Sager, working as he faces a recurrence of the leukemia he has battled for the past few years, spent about a minute with Conner, the 2014 ACC player of the year who was recently declared cancer-free after being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma on Thanksgiving Day 2015.

Sportscaster Craig Sager works 2nite 4 @ESPNNBA while battling cancer. 1st he FaceTime w/ Pitt RB @JamesConner_ https://t.