Postscript: Craig Sager, 1951-2016

At its best, being a diehard fan of the National Basketball Association feels a bit like belonging to a family. For the past two decades, Craig Sager--a longtime sideline reporter for Turner Sports who died on Thursday, at the age of sixty-five, after a two-year struggle with leukemia--was every hoops aficionado's kindly favorite uncle. Sager was always a pleasure to see onscreen. He mixed a schoolboy's unembarrassed love for basketball with a reporter's zeal for the fresh detail or telling phra...