You probably best know Craig Sager for his outlandish suits that he wears while broadcasting on the NBA sidelines. But did you also know that he never wears the same outfit twice? Or that, just hours before broadcasting, he's been receiving blood transfusions and chemotherapy? Sager has not only become part of the fabric that makes up the NBA experience, but also an inspiration for players, coaches, and millions of fans across the country and, perhaps, all over the world.

Now Sager is being honored on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In an interview with Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins, Sager talks about balancing his battle with cancer while doing the job he loves, broadcasting NBA games.

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In April 2014, Sager was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Since then he has undergone two bone marrow transplants, 21 bone marrow biopsies and more than 20 chemo cycles. When he announced his cancer had returned back in March, he had been given three to six months to live if he didn't receive treatment. Fortunately, Sager is receiving the best treatment available. And he's doing it while continuing to broadcast NBA games.

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Per Sports Illustrated:

“…chemotherapy treatments on Monday and Tuesday at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. A game on Wednesday night in Cleveland, a flight on Thursday morning to Detroit… Lab work on Thursday afternoon at Detroit Medical Center—'The doctors looked at my numbers and freaked out!' Sager howls—prompting a platelet transfusion that night at Sinai-Grace Hospital.”

He was at a game broadcasting hours after receiving the platelet transfusion.

According to Sager's doctor, what he has been able to do is nothing short of a miracle.

“A patient who battles this past a year is amazing,” said Sager's doctor, Naveen Pemmaraju. “What he’s done is almost miraculous.”

“But it is the essential question,” said Pemmaraju. “What he’s doing has danger. It has risk. Then again, we talk a lot about the mental aspect. Where do you go for your inspiration, for your drive? For him, it’s this job. If he can’t do it, then that could be harmful too.”

Despite all he has had to endure of the past few years, Sager would be the last person to bring it up.

“I don’t like to complain,” Sager says. “I don’t want people to go, ‘Look what happened to Sager, that’s so sad, that’s not the guy I knew.’ Then they won’t come see me.”

If the cancer goes into remission, Sager may be able to undergo a third bone marrow transplant. We're all praying for Sager to pull through and show us once again what perseverance can overcome.

Regardless of what Sager's future may hold for him, he has become an inspiration for all generations. In the words of the Stuart Scott, “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live.” If there is anyone who hasn't let cancer deter him from living the way he likes, it's Craig Sager.