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Craig Sager to have bone marrow transplant, miss Rio Olympics

Another named has bowed out of the Rio Olympics, but this time it wasn’t a big-name athlete.

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Colorful reporter Craig Sager will miss the Games as he’s preparing for a third bone marrow transplant in his ongoing battle with leukemia, NBC Sports announced Thursday. The longtime sideline man works for Turner Sports but was set to be part of NBC's team alongside Marv Albert and Doug Collins for Olympic basketball.

Sager, 65, was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2014 and announced in March that he was no longer in remission.