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The Spurs like to mess with us, but it would have been unwise to use Victor Wembanyama to do so
Look at the San Antonio Spurs doing their part to properly sell the NBA. For a time there was a chance that Victor Wembanyama might be making his handful of NBA Summer League games in Sacramento and not during the league’s big event in Las Vegas....
Don’t expect Gregg Popovich to go the Coach K retirement ceremony route
Going out to dinner with Gregg Popovich is up there with golfing with Charles Barkley, gambling with Michael Jordan, watching football with John Madden, and talking shit with Gary Payton on the list of activities with sports figures that sound like fun. As awesome as good food and better wine with C...
We want Dick Vitale and Gus Johnson to call an NCAA Tournament game — figure it out FOX, CBS & ESPN
When the 2022 Men’s NCAA Tournament starts in March, it’ll be the first time fans will be back in the stands as teams will be playing in venues across the country since 2019. The 2021 tournament took place in a bubble in Indiana, and the 2020 tourney was canceled. However, I want to pitch an idea fo...
Craig Sager's Will Leaves Nothing To His Children From His First Marriage
As Craig Sager’s two oldest children announced last week, the legendary sportscaster’s will shows that he left all of his property to his second wife, Stacy Jo Sager, and excluded the three adult children from his first marriage....
$500,000 Raised For Craig Sager's Foundation, No Thanks To Stephen Curry
A celebrity three-point challenge followed by a series of Stephen Curry bricks led to Craig Sager’s son—with help from Shaquille O’Neal—sinking a bucket that led to a $500,000 donation to the Sagerstrong Foundation....
Steve Kerr Leads Warriors Fans In "Moment Of Joy" Sager Tribute
Golden State coach Steve Kerr spoke to fans in attendance for tonight’s Knicks-Warriors game to recognize Craig Sager, who died earlier today—but instead of a moment of silence, Kerr found it more appropriate to lead the crowd in a standing ovation as a “moment of joy.” ...
Gregg Popovich Talked About Craig Sager Instead Of Basketball Tonight
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is a famous curmudgeon who expresses his open disgust with the NBA’s stipulation that coaches give sideline interviews during nationally televised games. Nobody drew his ire more than Craig Sager, and the pair’s welcome-back hug was one of the most touching moments during ...
The <i>Inside The NBA</i> Crew Remembers Craig Sager
Before the start of tonight’s Bucks-Bulls game on TNT, the Inside The NBA crew reminisced about their years working with the late Craig Sager. Ernie Johnson was off tonight due to an illness in the family, but he produced a video tribute for Sager, after which Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Shaq, and...
Kevin Garnett Playfully Roasting Craig Sager's Suits Will Never Not Be The Best
Craig Sager is most fondly remembered for his back-and-forth routine with Gregg Popovich, in which Sager would play the earnest sideline reporter and Popovich a sort of caricature of the surly coach who has no time for the manufactured pleasantries of a scheduled television interview. But for my mon...
Former Craig Sager Colleague Rachel Nichols Reports His Death Live On ESPN
Rachel Nichols, who worked alongside Craig Sager for three years at Turner Sports, bore the weight of reporting his death today at the top of today’s episode of The Jump on ESPN2....
Craig Sager Has Died
TNT basketball sideline reporter Craig Sager has died. He was 65....
Craig Sager Remains The Best
Yesterday Craig Sager underwent a rare third bone marrow transplant with stem cells, in yet another attempt to treat the aggressive form of leukemia that has afflicted him since 2014. He knows the odds simply aren’t very good. (“I like to bet on horses, I like to bet on dogs,” Sager told the Associa...
Craig Sager Will Miss The Olympics To Undergo Leukemia Treatment
Craig Sager has worked the Olympic basketball sidelines at every Games since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Sager is an employee of Turner Sports, but he’s crossed the aisle to NBC every four summers, and he was planning to do so again in Rio as recently as April. Sadly, he announced this after...
Craig Sager's Leukemia No Longer In Remission, Given 3-To-6 Month Prognosis
TNT basketball sideline reporter Craig Sager’s leukemia is no longer in remission and his doctors have given him a prognosis of three-to-six months left to live, he reveals on HBO’s Real Sports tonight. You can see a bit of his discussion with Bernard Goldberg above. ...
Gregg Popovich Requests Craig Sager Ask Him “Inane Questions” In The Sweetest Way Possible
Gregg Popovich is notorious for hating just about all interviews, but especially the league-mandated ones that take place during nationally televised games. But somewhere under that gruff exterior is a very kind man who has built a relationship with longtime TNT sideline reporter Craig Sager, and wa...
Raw Video Feed Of The Bulls' Welcome Back Ceremony For Craig Sager
Craig Sager is serving as the TNT sideline reporter for tonight's Thunder-Bulls contest, his first game in nearly a year after spending the last 11 months fighting leukemia. During the first quarter the Bulls put together a nice little tribute to Sager, including Benny the Bull presenting him with a...
Craig Sager Briefly Returns To TV For Coaches vs. Cancer Classic
The last time Craig Sager and his suits that Kevin Garnett think should be burned was on our televisions was April, prior to his treatment for leukemia. He left the hospital in May, and last night he made a return to TV for college basketball's Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, speaking a short message ab...
Craig Sager Doesn't Want Gregg Popovich To Be Nice To Him
In a truly sweet moment, on Sunday, TNT sent Craig Sager Jr. out to do the on-court interviews in place of his father, who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. The usually gruff and taciturn Gregg Popovich went soft, wishing Craig Sr. the best and promising to be nice to him when he re...
In Place Of Ailing Dad, Craig Sager's Son Interviews Gregg Popovich
With NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager getting treatment for leukemia, his son Craig Sager, Jr. took on the task of interviewing the usually taciturn Gregg Popovich during today's Mavs-Spurs game. But this time, Pop took it easy. He even said more than 15 words!...