NBA champion LeBron James, Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes and Japan’s Naomi Osaka were among five athletes honored Sunday by Sports Illustrated magazine for their off-field activism.
SI’s annual Sportsperson of the Year was The Activist Athlete and paid tribute to off-field activities by James, Osaka, Mahomes and his NFL teammate Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and Women’s NBA champion Breanna Stewart.
The magazine cited “five men and women who in 2020 were champions in every sense of the word: champions on the field, champions for others off it.”
James sparked the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA title, capturing the fourth of his career, and became the first three-time winner of t…
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