Craig Sager

Craig Graham Sager Sr. was an American sports reporter. Throughout his career, he covered an array of sports for CNN and its sister stations, TBS and TNT, from 1981 until the end of his life. Sager graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Speech. During most of his time at Northwestern, he was the school’s mascot, Willie the Wildcat, where he found great success. He then began his career as a reporter at small stations before joining CNN in 1980.

Sager was known primarily for being an NBA sideline reporter. He was fond of wearing suits in bright colors and garish prints. Sager was memorialized during that night’s transmission of a game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Chicago Bulls on the Inside the NBA pregame show, with players of each group wearing recognition T-shirts during warmups intended to appear as though one of Sager’s unmistakable pretentious suits.