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LeBron, Osaka, Mahomes among SI Sportspersons of the Year

Japan’s Naomi Osaka, the US Open champion, was among five people named Sports Illustrated’s Sportspersons of the Year on Sunday for their social activism away from competition as well as their championship sport efforts

NEW YORK – 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.”

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