Sports Illustrated has named current NBA champions Golden State Warriors
as Sportsperson of the Year 2018.Sports Illustrated explained its
choice by noting how the champions made themselves collectively bigger
and helped their team reached the top."For all the individual brilliance
of Steph Curry - a selection whom few would have protested - the
Warriors have always been most delightfully viewed through a collective
prism. There have been superteams that have forced us to reimagine how
the game is played, but none perhaps in a generation, maybe two, are so
beautifully choreographed as the Warriors," Sports Illustrated
explained."At the Dubs' most golden, their movements and pieces
seamlessly blur into each other to the point where it impossible to
distinguish the magic of one player from another, even magic so singular
as that of Curry or KD.""As with each of the Warriors' 64 predecessors,
performance alone did not exclusively define Golden State. The rise of
the Warriors has coincided with the restoration of the NBA as a leading
edge of culture that recalls the league's prolonged boom, which began
with the Magic-Larry years in the 1980s and continued through the
Jordan-dominated '90s. The current boom, too, has coincided with the
increasing intersection of sports and the hard questions of politics,
race and identity, among others, that have so divided the country. The
Warriors - forcefully but civilly - embraced the unique platform
afforded them. No, they did not change the world and its attendant
conflicts and ills, but they did not ignore them either."The 65th annual
presentation of the honor will go to the entire team, at a ceremony
which will take place in Los Angeles today. Sport Illustrated names Golden State Warriors as Sportsperson of the year
Sports Illustrated has named current NBA champions Golden State Warriors
as Sportsperson of the Year 2018.Sports Illustrated explained its
choice by noting how the champions made themselves collectively bigger
and helped their team reached the top."For all the individual brilliance
of Steph Curry - a selection whom few would have protested - the
Warriors have always been most delightfully viewed through a collective
prism. There have been superteams that have forced us to reimagine how
the game is played, but none perhaps in a generation, maybe two, are so
beautifully choreographed as the Warriors," Sports Illustrated
explained."At the Dubs' most golden, their movements and pieces
seamlessly blur into each other to the point where it impossible to
distinguish the magic of one player from another, even magic so singular
as that of Curry or KD.""As with each of the Warriors' 64 predecessors,
performance alone did not exclusively define Golden State. The rise of
the Warriors has coincided with the restoration of the NBA as a leading
edge of culture that recalls the league's prolonged boom, which began
with the Magic-Larry years in the 1980s and continued through the
Jordan-dominated '90s. The current boom, too, has coincided with the
increasing intersection of sports and the hard questions of politics,
race and identity, among others, that have so divided the country. The
Warriors - forcefully but civilly - embraced the unique platform
afforded them. No, they did not change the world and its attendant
conflicts and ills, but they did not ignore them either."The 65th annual
presentation of the honor will go to the entire team, at a ceremony
which will take place in Los Angeles today. 
