Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year? “The Activist Athlete”

Former Cleveland star LeBron James, WNBA player Breanna Stewart, Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, professional tennis player Naomi Osaka, and former Chiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif were named 2020 Sportspersons of the Year by Sports Illustrated.

The editors of Sports Illustrated wrote, “From a third-time winner who helped drive record election turnout to a newbie who spent the fall fighting a pandemic, this year's honorees—LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif—were champions on the field, champions for others off it.”

“And so our Sportsperson of the Year award goes to five men and women who in 2020 were champions in every sense of the word: champions on the field, champions for others off it,” the once popular sports magazine wrote.

The publication said they will provide more of the athlete’s stories in detail.