LOS ANGELES – LeBron James, who won an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers and formed a coaltion to battle voter suppression, was Thursday named Time magazine’s 2020 Athlete of the Year.
The honor from Time comes days after James was named among Sport Illustrated’s Sportspersons of the Year — a list that also featured activist athletes after 2020 saw the Black Lives Matter movement sweep through sport along with the rest of US society.
Time lauded James’s More than a Vote, a non-profit organization aimed not at endorsing candidates but at encouraging Black citizens and others to exercise their right to vote.
Time noted that the group promot…
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