Watch Craig Sager’s Heartwrenching Final Interview Before His Death

TNT basketball sideline reporter Craig Sager — who passed away last Thursday after a lengthy bout with cancer — gave an interview to CBS’s Sunday Morning which was taped in October but held for air until now.

Sager, who became an inspiration to so many people throughout the sports world during his public battle with the disease — which included three bone marrow transplants — offered a final few words of wisdom to his legion of fans.

“Nobody knows how long they have left on earth,” Sager said. “There’s no guarantees. And for me, when they tell you—not once, twice, three times—that you’ve got a couple weeks to live, or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.

The heartwrenching piece includes images of Sager, after having been told by his doctors last weekend that there was nothing else they could do for him, attending basketball games for his 10-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter.

Sager was honored at a memorial service in Atlanta on Tuesday. His longtime TNT colleague Ernie Johnson read a poem in Sager’s memory.

“The man that we reflect upon this day was just a treasure,” Johnson said. “The number of folks who he inspired, there’s just no way to measure.”

Ernie Johnson honors his friend Craig Sager. #SagerStrong https://t.co/d157NyGNYk

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) December 20, 2016

Watch Sager’s interview above, via CBS, and Johnson’s eulogy, via NBA TV.

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