CRAIG SAGER, you never failed to entertain. That’s the best compliment you can pay a broadcaster and Sager was the embodiment of NBA festivity. The league has always separated itself from other sports by prioritizing how fun and irreverent it can be – unlike the militarism of the NFL and the sepia-toned institutionalism of baseball. Sager was just so damn fun. I love it when people don’t take themselves seriously and Sager always let you know he was there to be laughed at and laugh with you. His suits were ridiculous and mesmerizing. His interviews with GREGG POPOVICH had the stilted humor of an ABBOTT AND COSTELLO skit. He wasn’t a jester. No, Sager was what ANDY KAUFMAN could have been if he had wanted the whole world to love him instead. Who else has ever made KEVIN GARNETT seem human and empathetic? Sager has received an outpouring of love and appreciation in death and luckily he felt it too while alive. Watching RACHEL NICHOLS, a former colleague and a friend to the end, announce his passing in real-time on ESPN made me choke up too. The best part of sports is when you forget it’s a sport and access it as life’s tale. Sager, as he battled leukemia for more than two years, was an avatar for everything we love about sports and he didn’t have to play a minute on the court… To get a full breadth of his genius, his pep, his skill and the prolonged battle he fought, check out the new REDEF SportsSet: “Remembering Craig Sager, the NBA's Clown Prince”… USA GYMNASTICS must answer for itself and the responsibility it holds as guardians of thousands of young girls and women. This is a harrowing investigative story about the sexual abuse suffered by young gymnasts nationwide after being left in the care of the organization – 368 allegations in 20 years is an astonishing number. Read the story for yourself to get the full scope… Should a team worry about the product it puts out onto the court or the ticket holders it will disappoint? That question is important again after GRIZZLIES fans lost out on the chance to watch LEBRON JAMES in MEMPHIS WEDNESDAY. The cost of the tickets was just as expensive as the pain of not seeing him play. NBA teams are increasingly resting their players early in the season and that’s no sin with an 82-game schedule and playoffs in mind. But that means commissioner ADAM SILVER needs to find a way to balance team-needs and the best interests of his consumers.