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Los Angeles – 16 July 2025
1. Suni Lee
2. Jordan Chiles
3. Shareef O’Neal
4. Alison Brie
5. (L-R) Josh Hines-Allen and Kaitlyn Allen
6. (L-R) Kristin Juszczyk and Kyle Juszczyk
7. Kristin Juszczyk
8. Angel McCoughtry
9. Ashleigh Johnson
10. Andre Levrone, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
11. Gisele Thompson
12. Merab Dvalishvil
13. Liv Walker
14. Freddie Freeman, Chelsea Freeman
15. Alex Morgan, she’s joined by Servando Carrasco
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.
“It’s a dream come true and for dreams to come true it takes a village,” he said, thanking his wife, parents, brother and others. “Those names probably don’t mean much but to me they mean everything.”
Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist, claimed the night’s first award, best championship performance for her efforts at the Paris Games. She won three golds and a silver while helping the U.S. win its first team title since 2016.
“That was very unexpected, especially in a category of all men,” Biles said after kissing her husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens.
She beat out Stephen Curry, Freddie Freeman and Rory McIlroy.
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.
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