{"id":102537,"date":"2016-06-15T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102537"},"modified":"2016-06-15T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:48:00","slug":"craig-sager-joins-espnabc-nba-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102537","title":{"rendered":"Craig Sager joins ESPN\/ABC  NBA coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102538\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sager.jpg\" alt=\"sager\" width=\"127\" height=\"71\" \/>CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Craig Sager is going to work his first NBA Finals game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The longtime sideline reporter has been added to ESPN&#8217;s broadcast team for Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. Sager, who has worked for Turner Sports for 34 years, will share sideline reporting duties with Doris Burke on ABC&#8217;s broadcast.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sager, who has long been one of the league&#8217;s most revered personalities, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014. He says the invitation to join the broadcast &#8220;is a great honor.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a video released Wednesday by ESPN announcing the move, Burke told Sager: &#8220;Welcome to our team. It&#8217;s our honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Craig Sager is going to work his first NBA Finals game. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The longtime sideline reporter has been added to ESPN&#8217;s broadcast team for Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. Sager, who has worked for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102540,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102537\/revisions\/102540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}