By JAKE NISSE, US SPORTS WRITER
Published: 22:00 EDT, 22 August 2025 | Updated: 22:00 EDT, 22 August 2025
An NBA executive posted a heart-wrenching final message to LinkedIn on Friday as she died of a rare cancer at age 40.
Caroline Klein, the chief communications officer of the Utah Jazz, had battled Stage 4 Proximal Type Epithelioid Sarcoma in her lungs after being given the diagnosis in August 2023.
In a final message on LinkedIn - titled 'Remember me for the way I lived,' Klein encouraged others to 'pursue all of your dreams with an unapologetic determination.'
'We only have one life to live, and it’s on you to live it to the fullest. So please, try to see every day as a license to LIVE, not just pass the time,' she wrote.
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