Death of Craig Sager: Journalist colorful defeated by leukemia

Any NBA is in shock and will pay tribute to this popular figure of the surrounding floors.
Any perseverance we recognized him and all colors (willingly unlikely) he was leaving his dressing room to blur happily NBA there have done nothing: the American sports reporter Craig Sager, credited with a career 40 years in the world of sports including fifteen years at the forefront of the prestigious league of basketball, died Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the age of 65, died of a acute myelogenous leukemia. He had just been inducted, two days earlier, the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, the pantheon of the profession.
The diagnosis, terrible, fell in 2014, the land away and depriving the playoffs that season, and with a wave of messages of support from many coaches and players. Still, Craig Sager, figure as popular with viewers lighthouse that athletes had resumed operations. His son Craig Jr., from his first marriage, was compatible for a bone marrow transplant that allowed the journalist to go into remission. In vain: in March 2016, it announced its relapse and, despite a new bone marrow transplant from an anonymous donor, he had only months to live. As a symbolic gesture, he intervened still a few months ago in Game 6 of the 2016 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers.
In the month of July, Craig Sager was the hero of the US annual ceremony of sports awards and media, ESPY Awards: under the gaze of her Stacy wife upset and repressing great difficulty in tears, the veteran journalist sports is mounted on stage at the Microsoft Theater, accompanied by an incredible standing ovation , to receive from the hands of US Vice President Joe Biden the Jimmy V Perseverance Award in recognition of her courageous battle against cancer.
Craig Sager was awarded in July 2016 Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the ESPY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles in recognition of his fight against cancer. In December of the same year, he succumbed to his leukemia at age 65.
” I have confidence in your ability to eradicate one day soon, cancer ‘, began by stating with great emotion Craig Sager, that night, the Biden address. Then he had the shocking words about his wife Stacy ” . It is my heaven on earth In the darkest moments, while tears ran down our cheeks, we hugged and prayed ‘If. please do not leave me, she said, we can fight together. ‘ Love knows no fear, and love is my strength . ”
Also involving five children, her sister and her stepmother in the war he led against the disease, he also thanked his family especially sports and employers, from the initial diagnosis, did everything for him afford to continue doing what he loved. Continuing his speech to the life lesson of paces before a religiously attentive assembly and still standing, among which legends such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he has told what it is like to live on borrowed when the doctors tell you that it only remains for you a few weeks to live and that the only hope that remains consists of ” fourteen consecutive days of intense chemotherapy “: ” the time is not something you can buy; we can not not the bargain with God. and it is not an inexhaustible resource the time is not that the way you live your life. ”
Despite his health and the tragedy of the situation, he had appeared at his best, eloquent and very smart : it was precisely one of these colorful jackets (on a yellow shirt) that made his reputation – in an interview a cult for emission the NBA on TNT , the same superstar Kevin Garnett had ordered him a day to burn her pink jacket! Delivering of valorous maxims of life, he had also made everyone laugh punctuating the enumeration of some great moments in his career: ” And I interviewed Gregg Popovich [San Antonio Spurs coach, known for his answers very laconic and his particular style with reporters, Ed] . At halftime of a game where Spurs were led by seven points. “a passionate died …