The Cleveland Cavaliers will try to make history and stay alive by winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night against the defending champion Golden State Warriors.Home and facing a must-win, the Cavs recall the agony of the 2015 NBA Finals when the Warriors sealed the championship in Game 6 at Quicken Loans Arena. Only two of 32 teams down 3-1 in NBA Finals have managed to take the series to seven games, the last time in 1966.Cleveland's goal, of course, is to make sure history doesn't repeat for the second straight year. Cavaliers stars LeBron James and Kyrie Irving scored 41 points apiece in Cleveland's 112-97 victory in Game 5, denying the Warriors a chance to repeat on their home court at Oracle Arena.--Golden State center Andrew Bogut will miss the remainder of the NBA Finals against Cleveland with a left knee injury.An MRI revealed that Bogut will not require surgery, the Warriors announced. Bogut will be sidelined 6-8 weeks.The 31-year-old Australian suffered the injury at the 10:30 mark of the third quarter in Game 5 at Oracle Arena on Monday night. The 7-foot Bogut collided with Cleveland guard J.R. Smith during the 112-97 loss to the Cavaliers. Bogut collected three rebounds and three blocks but did not score a point.--Nearly four months after he was given three to six months to live, NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager will be part of the ESPN broadcast crew for Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Friday in Cleveland. Sager, a Turner Sports employee for 34 years, gets the chance to call his first Finals. He has been battling leukemia since the April 2014 diagnosis and was given three to six months to live by doctors treating him in February.Sager, 64, has received bone-marrow and stem-cell transplants from his son, Craig. He said in a March interview with HBO that doctors were blunt but careful not to project a hopeless forecast.--Memphis Grizzlies guard Jordan Adams is undergoing cartilage transplant surgery on his right knee.The Grizzlies announced the transplant was being performed Wednesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York by Dr. Riley Williams.Adams, 21, underwent a lateral meniscectomy on the same knee last August after sustaining a partially torn meniscus during an offseason workout.--Pat Garrity has been promoted to assistant general manager and Bob Beyer to associate head coach, Detroit Pistons head coach and president of basketball operations Stan Van Gundy announced.Also as part of some restructuring within the basketball operations staff, Andrew Loomis has been promoted to chief of staff and Otis Smith joins the Pistons' staff as director of player development/assistant coach while assistant coach Brendan Malone will transition to a special assignment scout, residing in New York.In addition, Quentin Richardson is leaving the organization for personal reasons. Richardson joined the Pistons in 2014 as director of player development after a 13-year NBA playing career.