Craig Sager

Cleveland Cavaliers All-star 3-point Shootout Competitors From Mark Price To Kyrie Irving 1988-2017

... in 1994. It looked for a second like Price wouldn’t survive the first round at Minnesota’s Target Center in his bid to repeat as champion, but a score of 15 got him into the semifinals, where he again hit for 21 points out of a possible 30, making eight consecutive shots along the way. Charles Barkley, then sitting in with the TNT broadcast crew, commented: “They had a chance to finish him off, and now Mark Price is alive and well.” In the finals, Philadelphia’s Dana Barros, won the coin toss and elected to let Price shoot first. That proved costly as Price hit for a whopping 24 points out of a possible 30, and Barros could only manage 13. Price’s effort was one point short of the record at the time. Price would be traded to Washington prior to the 1994-95 season and would play only seven games due to injury that year, eliminating his chance to defend the title a second time and go for three straight at the All-Star ...

By The Numbers, Here’s A Look At Nba All-star Weekend

... those with more than one All-Star appearance, Kevin Durant’s 25.6-point average in All-Star Games is the best in the game’s history. (Dale Ellis scored 27 points in his lone All-Star outing.). The number of cancer survivors who will be at Friday night’s Rising Stars game in honor of longtime sideline reporter Craig Sager, who died of cancer last year. The 30 survivors from the New Orleans area will be seated in a “Sager Strong” section. Le Bron James’ first basket on Sunday will be his 120 th field goal in All-Star play, breaking a tie with Kobe Bryant for the most in the game’s history. James is already the leading All-Star career scorer with 291 points entering this weekend — one more than Bryant posted. And if he takes seven shots Sunday, James will be the All-Star career leader in that stat, too. (Bryant has 238, Michael Jordan took 233 and James has 232 and counting). The number of days older that Carmelo Anthony is than any other All-Star. Anthony is 32 and so is Le Bron James — ...

Joel Embiid Wants 76ers To Keep Jahlil Okafor

... make it this year. I think next year is our goal . "We have a lot of talent. Anytime you have that type of talent, you got to find ways to make it work.". Okafor displayed the low-post skills that Embiid raves about in the Rising Stars Challenge on Friday at the Smoothie King Center. The center was credited with 10 points on 5-for-6 shooting to go with two rebounds in a reserve role for the United States team. But he has been the subject of trade talks with 10 to 11 teams, including the Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans, Denver Nuggets, and Portland Trail Blazers. All-Star Saturday Night. New York Knicks power forward Kristaps Porzingis won the skills challenge at the all-star event at the Smoothie King Center. Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon won the three-point contest. And Indiana Pacers small forward Glenn Robinson III outlasted Chester native Derrick Jones Jr. to win the slam- dunk contest. Jones, a rookie forward for the Phoenix Suns, had the most impressive made dunks. But his struggles in the ...

Hillbilly Elegy, Sports Memoirs Among Recommended Non-fiction Books For Winter Reading

... star Charles Barkley. –“Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962” by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking, $40) is the author’s final biography of the former First Lady, taking us through World War II, FDR’s death, the founding of the United Nations and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962. Mrs. Roosevelt was the most important and powerful First Lady until Hillary Clinton came along. The 670-page volume is a sympathetic portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all folks. The author is a history professor and has written several highly-respected books, including two other volumes on ER and one on President Dwight Eisenhower. –“The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan” by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin Press, $40) is a masterful biography of a well-known economist who served as chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve System – or the head of the U. S. Central Banking System — from 1987 to 2006. The 781-page hardcover is the ...

Craig Sager, 1951-2016

... coughed up intriguing tidbits about their teammates and opponents. Other reporters withered under Popovich’s scorn during in-game interviews; Sager made the interaction a cartoonish game of cat and mouse. When it was revealed, in 2014, that Sager had been diagnosed with leukemia, expressions of goodwill toward him proliferated, elevating him to the status of a league-wide saint. #Sager Strong became a popular hashtag and rallying cry; players and coaches wished him well over the airwaves. As his health diminished, and his time onscreen slowly dwindled, his few appearances became occasions for basketball’s extended family of fans, announcers, and executives to shower him in appreciation. His many quiet kindnesses over the years were gradually revealed: in 1993, Sager had convinced the troubled power forward Dennis Rodman, gun in hand, not to commit suicide; after an ...

2017 Atlanta Sports Hall Of Fame Inductee

... children, and become fixture on Turner networks covering everything from Nordic skiing to tennis. “When he was growing up, he wanted to be Ernie Banks, be a major baseball player,” said Stacy Sager, Craig’s widow. “But like a lot of us, we are not professional athletes. So sports was etched in his memory and his lore of who he was.”. But it was as NBA courtside reporter where Sager made his name, and where his trademark sports coats came to life. They really did have a life of their own. “I like the one he wore at the All-Star game this year that looked like something from a Nasa lab. It looked like a galaxy,” said Sager Jr. And when Sager was first diagnosed with leukemia, his adopted city responded. A local highs school fashionably found a way to raise money for their hometown hero. But when Sager’s cancer returned for the third time last year, he was given just a few months to live. Then came the speech at the ESPY awards, where he received the Jim Valvano perseverance award. “You know that moment before he went on stage, he looked at me and said I don’t know if I can get through it,” said Stacy Sager. ...

Robinson Wins Dunk Contest, Caps Saturday Events

... make a halfcourt shot. Curry missed his attempts, but Shaquille O'Neal then hoisted Sager's youngest son, Ryan, up so he could dunk to earn the total. Craig Sager died in December at 65 after battling a form of cancer. He was announced earlier Saturday as a Curt Gowdy Media Award winner by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 8:25 p.m. Houston's Eric Gordon has dethroned Golden State splash brother Klay Thompson as the NBA All-Star 3-point contest champion. And he did it in New Orleans, where he played the previous five seasons before leaving last summer in free agency. Gordon's score of 21 in a final-round tie-breaker defeated Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, the 2013 winner who had 18. The pair had each finished with a score of 20 in the final round, meaning they each had to shoot 25 more balls to decide it. Thompson was stunningly eliminated in the first round, missing a final shot from the corner that could have put him through ahead of Walker. 7:40 ...

Atlanta Hawks Radio Voice Steve Holman Enters Atlanta Hall

... Track Club and Peachtree Road Race director Julia Emmons, former Hawks assistant coach Bob Reinhart and former TNT sideline reporter Craig Sager. “This is a big one,” Holman said this week. “They are all important and they are all great. To be in the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame and you start to look at the names like Bobby Jones. …”. Those honored make up an impressive list and Holman can cite most of them. He mentions those he has worked with over the years such as Falcons greats Jeff Van Note and Steve Bartkowski and Braves greats Bobby Cox and Dale Murphy. He notes those with the Hawks, the organization where he spent the past 32 years as the radio voice, including Lou Hudson and Dominique Wilkins. And of course some of his fellow broadcasters, such as Ernie Johnson Sr., Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren. “To be in with all those great announcers is an honor,” Holman said. “To be in the same hall of fame with people who actually played is terrific. It’s hard to believe when I came here in 1980 that 37 years later I ...