LOS ANGELES — The 2025 ESPYS, held on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Wednesday and hosted by comic Shane Gillis, celebrated and acknowledged the very best gamers, groups and moments in sports activities.
NBA Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles received as greatest female and male athletes.
Gilgeous-Alexander led the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder to the NBA championship final month whereas piling up {hardware} as league MVP and scoring champion.
“It is a dream come true and for goals to return true it takes a village,” he mentioned, thanking his spouse, mother and father, brother and others. “These names most likely do not imply a lot however to me they imply all the things.”
Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist, additionally claimed the night time’s first award, Greatest Championship Efficiency, for her efforts on the Paris Video games. She received three golds and a silver whereas serving to the U.S. win its first workforce title since 2016.
“That was very sudden, particularly in a class of all males,” Biles mentioned after kissing her husband, Chicago Bears security Jonathan Owens.
She beat out Stephen Curry, Freddie Freeman and Rory McIlroy for the award.
The Philadelphia Eagles, who received the franchise’s second Tremendous Bowl in February, claimed greatest workforce honors, beating out 9 different nominees, together with the Thunder, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Florida Panthers, the Ohio State soccer workforce and the U.S. nationwide ladies’s soccer workforce.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (left), Simone Biles (middle), Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni (proper) — ESPY Awards on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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Pat Tillman Award for Service
Former athletes David Walters and Erin Regan accepted the Pat Tillman Award for Service, given to those that have served in a manner that honors the legacy of the previous NFL participant and U.S. Military Ranger.
Walters, 37, earned a gold medal in swimming on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was a seven-time world championship medalist. He is now a Los Angeles metropolis firefighter.
Regan, 45, was a Wake Forest soccer participant who spent one season within the execs earlier than retiring to affix the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division.
Each Walters and Regan fought the lethal and damaging wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January.
Checklist of notable winners from the night time
— Greatest Championship Efficiency: Simone Biles, Olympic gymnastics all-around
— Greatest Play: Saquon Barkley’s backwards hurdle
— Muhammad Ali Sports activities Humanitarian Award: Sloane Stephens
— Greatest Breakthrough Athlete: Ilona Maher, USA Rugby
— Capital One Cup Winners: UNC ladies and Ohio State males
— Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Katie Schumacher-Cawley
— Icon Award: Alex Morgan and Diana Taurasi
— Greatest Athlete – Ladies’s Sports activities: Simone Biles, USA Gymnastics
— Pat Tillman Award for Service: Los Angeles County firefighters David Walters and Erin Regan
— Gatorade Gamers of the Yr: Jane Hedengren and Cameron Boozer
— Greatest Comeback Athlete: Suni Lee, USA Gymnastics
— Billie Jean King Youth Management Award: Rishin Tandon, Maegha Ramanathan and Ian Waite
— Arthur Ashe Award for Braveness: Oscar Robertson
— Greatest Athlete – Males’s Sports activities: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
— Greatest File-Breaking Efficiency: Alexander Ovechkin, NHL all-time targets chief
— Greatest Group: Philadelphia Eagles, NFL
— Greatest NBA Participant: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
— Greatest WNBA Participant: Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever
— Greatest Faculty Athlete – Males’s Sports activities: Cooper Flagg, Duke males’s basketball
— Greatest Faculty Athlete – Ladies’s Sports activities: JuJu Watkins, USC ladies’s basketball
— Greatest Athlete with a Incapacity: Noah Elliott, Para Snowboarding
— Greatest NFL Participant: Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles
— Greatest MLB Participant: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
— Greatest NHL Participant: Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers
— Greatest Driver: Max Verstappen, F1
— Greatest UFC Fighter: Merab Dvalishvili
— Greatest Boxer: Katie Taylor
— Greatest Soccer Participant: Christian Pulisic, AC Milan, USMNT
— Greatest Golfer: Scottie Scheffler
— Greatest Tennis Participant: Coco Gauff
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ESPN and the Related Press contributed to this report
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