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HOUSTON -- The chemotherapy has diminished Craig Sagers once-lustrous chestnut hair to a few unruly strands, and on this day of hope, a simple green T-shirt and blue shorts adorn the man known by millions for his ostentatious wardrobe and easy rapport with the NBAs elite.He methodically extended a long, skinny arm to an IV pole holding the stem cells he is counting on to save his life. There was silence as he cradled the tube, watching the crimson liquid drip, drip, drip in a perfect cadence into the cannula feeding it into his cancer-stricken body.TNTs beloved basketball broadcaster received a rare third bone marrow transplant on Wednesday as an aggressive form of leukemia continues to take its toll. Sager, 65, has battled acute myeloid leukemia since 2014 and announced in March that he was no longer in remission.Sager knows the odds are against him. Yet, he is unfazed.I like to gamble, he told The Associated Press. I like to bet on horses, I like to bet on dogs. I like to bet on a lot of things. Ive bet on a lot of things with a lot higher odds than this.Two other times, Sager received a bone marrow transplant with stem cells, and in both instances, it put him into remission for several months. His son, Craig Sager II, was the donor then. This time, the anonymous 20-year-old donor was considered a perfect match.Sager has been hospitalized for a month and has another monthlong stay ahead. He hasnt thought a lot about the man whose bone marrow could change everything for him. But when he learned of the donors age, he expressed a possibly only half-serious concern.My only thing was, I was afraid that when he signed up to be the donor, he may have been in some drunk fraternity house, trying to impress his date, Sager said with a smile. And they call him up the next day and say, Want to come down to the hospital? and hes like, What?His fears turned out to be unfounded.He came through, Sager said.It is the latest of close to 100 procedures Sager has endured in his well-publicized fight, and it was performed at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Sager began the transplant at about 11:30 a.m. CT, and it wasnt complete until more than 10 hours later.Craig Sager II tweeted Wednesday as his father was undergoing the procedure.Dr. Muzaffar Qazilbash, Sagers stem cell transplantation physician, researched thousands of such transplants at MD Anderson over the past 15 years to illustrate just how uncommon Sagers procedure was.Its less than 1 percent of the total number of transplants, Qazilbash said. Its very rare to have three transplants.As Sager said moments after the process began, OK, third times the charm.Sager, who has worked for TNT for more than three decades, calls himself coachable and said he is open to trying anything doctors believe might help.Ive had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once, he said. Some of them that arent even in the alphabet, theyre just numbers -- clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. Ive had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isnt fun, and Ive had 23. So thats been tough.Despite the rigors of treatment and how it can ravage his body, he has never thought about giving up. In fact, he gets angry when he meets other patients who say theyve grown weary of fighting.Man, life is too beautiful, too wonderful, theres just too many things, he said. Its not just you. Its your family and kids and all. Fight. Fight until the end. Fight as hard as you can.With his radiant smile and TV-perfect persona, it takes time to peel back the layers of positivity and catch a glimpse of how hard that fight can be.His attitude is [that] nobody wants to hear it, said Stacy Sager, his wife, full-time caregiver and No. 1 fan. And so it makes you reflect on yourself and the things that you say when youre complaining about little things in life and trivial things, and it just puts things in perspective.But there are times, often as night creeps into early morning, where it all becomes too much. No medication can help.Ive never had any of those days where Ive actually said, Why me or I cant do it, he said. But Ill have some dark nights where Ill be here by myself and maybe getting some medicine thats making me jump around like a rabbit. And Im in pain and Ive got chills and Ive got fever and Ive got everything mixed into one and Im throwing up and have diarrhea ... and Ill just say, Stacy, I need you. I need you.And shell come to me and just hold me, and it just makes it better.A few days before his transplant, Stacy came down with a bad cold and doctors sent her home, fearful she would transmit her illness to her husband. Hall of Famer and TNT colleague Charles Barkley heard she couldnt be there for a couple of days and hopped on a plane from Phoenix.The problem was that Barkley had hip replacement surgery less than a month ago and wasnt cleared to travel. He said his doctor was livid when he learned Barkley had defied orders and flown halfway across the country. Barkley informed the doctor that it was an emergency -- although it was hard to know who was there for whom.Craig Sager is one of the most interesting people Ive ever met, Barkley said. We go to see Sager to cheer him up, and by the time you leave, youre like, Is anything wrong with him? He has the most positive attitude.When you go to try and cheer him up, his attitude is so upbeat, he cheers you up.Sager has found inspiration in a little girl who lost her fight with cancer before her ninth birthday. He befriended Lacey Holsworth and her family while working on a story about her illness and remained friends with her parents after she died in April 2014. Holsworth had cheered on the Michigan State basketball team and had a close friendship with star player?Adreian Payne.Last weekend, her parents visited Sager in his Houston hospital room. They left him with a more tangible reminder of her bravery.They brought me little Laceys boots that she used to always wear to games and a picture of her wearing them, Sager said, clutching the high-top cheetah footwear accessorized with laces made from silk ribbons. That little girl was so amazing. Fought for all of those years, was always positive, always cheerful, always brought other peoples spirits up. So if Im laying here feeling bad, I just think about Lacey, and it puts everything in perspective.Sager also is bolstered by his drive to be back on the sideline for the NBA season. He doesnt expect to have recovered from Wednesdays transplant in time for the season opener Oct. 25 but aims to return by early November for more gentle sparring with the likes of?San Antonio Spurs?coach Gregg?Popovich.It would be a victory not just for him, but for all the people his fight has inspired.It means that youre surviving and youre winning, he said. That youre knocking down obstacles and clearing hurdles that are put in front of you and youre doing them with flying colors.On Wednesday, five colorful balloons were tied to one side of his hospital bed. Several had birthday greetings and two read: Happy birthday, its your big day.Festive, yes. But Sager was born in June.When you get stem cells, they say its your new birthday, Stacy explained. 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He sat in on his teams first mock expansion draft and offered polite suggestions on players he thinks might be of interest to his more hockey-savvy staff.Then Foley and GM George McPhee answered questions from dozens of fans in the inviting plaza that will no doubt become the focal point of pregame festivities when the expansion Las Vegas Something Knights begins play next season. During the fan session, Foley took a swipe at the prospect of the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas, suggesting that any public monies that might be committed to a stadium for the NFL team could be better put to use on schools, health care and the like.Then he was off to nearby T-Mobile Arena, where he appeared on the ice before a preseason game between the Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche with Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille, a top executive with the Kings, for a ceremony that marked the end of the Kings longstanding relationship with the gambling mecca, where the team has long held preseason games. Robitaille handed over the torch (or in this case, a hockey stick) to signal the shift to the Las Vegas home team.I caught up with Foley shortly after the on-ice ceremony in his suite beneath the stands for an update on the team name, its jersey and how things are shaping up for Las Vegas first professional team.ESPN.com: Whats it like to be at the table with your staff for the mock draft and start the discussion about what this team is going to look like?Foley: Its so much fun. I mean, I really didnt bring anything to the party, other than to ask a few questions about certain players and give some input and some advice and so on. I had no input in the way they were ranking people and who they thought would be available or wouldnt be available. But the business situations Im normally in, where Im grinding it out every day, are not fun. Someones quit, or someones done something they shouldnt have done, or the companys not doing what it should be doing. This is fun.ESPN.com: Youre now three months into ownership. Is it different than you imagined?Foley: It is different because I didnt realize all the things I would have to do. Ive never gone through interview processes like Ive been through in this situation. I interviewed, either by telephone or in person, seven different candidates for GM, three over a six-day period. They came in. I met each candidate. We had dinner. I met them the next morning, then they left. The next guy came in. I met him, we had dinner, that whole process. Then you go through and do it again with the guy you really like.Then, in Georges case, we had a nice party at Rock Creek in Montana, where we signed the contract together. Went in, had a couple of glasses of wine. Flew down and had the press conference. And the same thing with the president of business ops. It was exhausting. I never interviewed people like that. I was like, normally, Come on, youre in, lets go.ESPN.com: Do you feel more like a hockey guy now, especially looking at the staff you have? Theres so much experience in that room.Foley: Absolutely. I still know nothing, and I recognize that. I told the guys that this morning. I said, You can say anything you want to say. Im just Bill Foley. Im just another guy sitting at this table. I want to learn. But it was so much fun listening to them talk about players and why they like this guy or that guy.dddddddddddd. It was amazing.ESPN.com: Are you surprised by how much interest there has been in the name of this team?Foley: I cant believe it. Why is this name this important? Once it became important, then of course I want to make it more important. My job is to keep it in the news. We have the NFL football going on, college football going on, hockeys getting ready to start its regular season. I need attention. I like the attention.ESPN.com:?Would you like to tell me the name?Foley: I will tell you its going to be something Knights.ESPN.com: You could get ahead of the news cycle if you told me.Foley: I could, but were going to announce it Nov. 18. You heard George say, Even my wife doesnt know.ESPN.com: How involved have you been in not just the name but also the design of the jersey and the color scheme?Foley: Completely involved. Im trying to get Adidas to come around to my way of thinking, in terms of how I want this jersey to look and the power and the culture I want it to evoke. And theyre getting there. But Im trying to get one color more bold instead of recessive, and I believe well get it done next week. If we do, we can start printing hats and T-shirts and gym bags. We wont have jerseys probably until mid-December, but well have everything else. This will be powerful.ESPN.com:?Do you want to share the color scheme with me?Foley: Well, as Ive said, it will have some desert influences. Because its Knights, theres obviously going to be some steel gray somewhere. Probably have some gold because that makes sense, and most teams have black.ESPN.com: Have there been moments since you were confirmed at the board of governors meeting in June that have reaffirmed your belief that, yes, this will work?Foley: There have been several validation moments. But were going to kill it. This is going to be one of the most successful hockey teams in the country by the time were done with it. Because were going to engage the community. Were going to engage the people visiting town. Weve got the team and the excitement around town. Its just unbelievable. The local residents love hockey. Its the new identity. I know the Raiders are talking about coming here. They havent even made a dent. Its hockey. Because this is [Las Vegas] team.ESPN.com: Tell me about one of those moments.Foley: It happens all the time. People say, Hey,