Craig Sager FaceTimes with Cancer Survivor Pitt RB James Conner Before Game 6

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FaceTime with the Legend Craig Sager!!  pic.twitter.com/OyAaPtbGDB

— James Conner (@JamesConner_) June 16, 2016"

Before working his first career NBA Finals game Thursday, sideline reporter Craig Sager talked to Pittsburgh Panthers running back and cancer survivor James Conner on FaceTime.

Per Lauren Brill of WEWS-TV in Cleveland, this wasn't planned. Someone happened to mention to Sager—who told HBO's Real Sports in March (h/t Sports Illustrated) that his leukemia is no longer in remission—that he has been Conner's inspiration.

So the 64-year-old veteran hopped on the phone to talk.

Conner was pumped:

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God is AMAZING. Just got the call that my body is clean of cancer!!! Been a long road but God had my back. Thanks everyone who said prayers!

— James Conner (@JamesConner_) May 23, 2016"

The 2014 ACC Player of the Year was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015, per ESPN.com's Matt Fortuna, but he was declared cancer-free last month:

[Twitter, h/t ESPN.com]