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1. (L-R) Matthew Stafford and Kelly Stafford
2. Brooks Nader
3. Da’Vinchi
4. Chiney Ogwumike
5. Billie Jean King poses solo, is joined by Ilana Kloss
6. (L-R) Fat Nwigwe and Tobe Nwigwe
7. Naomi Girma
8. Jordan Mailata and he’s joined by Nikki Mailata on his right
9. (L-R) Luguentz Dort, Aaron Wiggins, Jalen Williams, Isaiah Hartenstein and Isaiah Joe
10. Jared Verse
11. Jason Winston George
12. (L-R) Sadé Vanessa and Robbie Chosen Anderson
13. Oscar Robertson
14. Toni Breidinger
15. (L-R) Michelle Surtain and Patrick Surtain II
16. (L-R) Gabby Thomas and Spencer McManes
17. Daria Berenato
18. Mina Kimes
19. Johnny Townsend
STORYLINE:
NBA Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles won as best male and female athletes at the ESPYS on Wednesday night.
Gilgeous-Alexander led the Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA championship last month while piling up hardware as league MVP and scoring champion.
Biles’ Olympic teammate, Suni Lee, won the best comeback award for overcoming two rare kidney diseases. She brought one of her doctors to the show.
Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage from point guard Russell Westbrook.
Robertson was president of the NBA Players’ Association at the time of a landmark antitrust lawsuit against the NBA in 1970. It led to an extensive reform of the league’s strict free agency and draft rules and eventually to higher salaries for all players.
The 86-year-old Robertson, a 12-time All Star known as The Big O during his career, was the first Black president of any sports labor union.
“I knew there was work to do. There was a desperate need for players to have more career security, improved working conditions and other accommodations," he said. “In life, it’s important to be persistent or as I have been called stubborn. Stubborn about what you believe in.”
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