Biles, Gilgeous-Alexander, Eagles win top honors at 2025 ESPYS - ESPN

LOS ANGELES — 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, also 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 for the award.

The Philadelphia Eagles, who won the franchise's second Super Bowl in February, claimed best team honors, beating out nine other nominees, including the Thunder, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Florida Panthers, the Ohio State football team and the U.S. national women's soccer team.

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.

Arthur Ashe Award for Courage

Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage from point guard Russell Westbrook.

Robertson was president of the NBA Players Association at the time of a landmark antitrust lawsuit against the NBA in 1970. It led to an extensive reform of the league's strict free agency and draft rules and