clothing—an immense array of sport coats and suits described as "loud," "colorful," and "lively". He rarely wore the same outfit twice. One reporter investigating Sager's accumulated wardrobe stored within the jocular interviewer's home tallied 137 jackets before giving up, without even counting the garments contained in other closets scattered throughout the house. In addition to his work on NBA telecasts, Sager reported for TNT at the 1999 Tournament of the Americas Olympic Qualifying Basketball Tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the 2000 USA Basketball Games, and the 2002 World Championships of Basketball. Sager also served as a sideline reporter for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, both for Turner Sports and CBS with Marv Albert, Chris Webber, and Len Elmore. NBC Sports In 1999, Sager was loaned to NBC Sports to work as a field reporter for both NBC's coverage of the National League Championship Series and World Series. He was the men's and women's basketball reporter for NBC's Olympic coverage since the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He served as a reporter for NBC Sports' coverage of basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Awards and honors With his life nearing its end, in June 2016, Sager was loaned by Time Warner's Turner Sports to rival Disney's ESPN to cover his first NBA Finals. Sager partnered with NBA on ESPN regular Doris Burke to work the sidelines of Game 6 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Fittingly, his first Finals game was the last game he worked before his death. On July 13, 2016, Sager was awarded the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the 2016 ESPY Awards show for battling cancer, which was his final public appearance. In a moving acceptance speech to those gathered and to a national television audience, the terminally ill Sager said: On December 13, 2016, Sager was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame just two days before his death. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded Sager his first Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Reporter at the 2017 ceremony. At the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, Sager was named the winner of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's 2017 Curt Gowdy Media Award. The award was given in September 2017. Since 2017, a replica of the Sager sports coat that he wore while accepting the Jimmy V Perseverance Award is given as a prize to recipients