Overview
- Jalen Brunson swept major individual honors, winning Best Championship Performance, Best NBA Player and Best Athlete (Men’s Sports) for his Finals run, a night that cemented his role in the Knicks’ title narrative.
- The New York Knicks took Best Team and teammate OG Anunoby won Best Play for his game‑clinching tip‑in in the NBA Finals, underscoring the team’s prominence after their first championship in 53 years.
- Stephen Curry received the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award for his Eat, Learn, Play work, and the late Jason Collins was posthumously given the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, accepted by his twin brother Jarron Collins.
- ESPN staged the show at the David H. Koch Theater with Marcello Hernández hosting, a rain‑delayed outdoor red carpet and a live ABC telecast that streamed on the ESPN App and was made available on Disney+, Hulu and ABC on‑demand.
- The ESPYs mixed fan‑voted competitive categories with special honors and entertainment, a format that amplified the Knicks’ local moment while reinforcing ESPN’s strategy to blend sports, storytelling and cross‑platform distribution.