PHOTO: Craig Sager in attendance for Game 5 between Clippers and Rockets

One man has been noticeably absent through this year's playoffs: TNT reporter Craig Sager.

Sager is once again battling leukemia, which has kept the enigmatic reporter off the sidelines throughout most of the last two seasons.

However, Sager made a return to the sidelines on Tuesday in Houston, as he posed alongside the TNT broadcast crew of Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller prior to tipoff between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers.