Sports Illustrated - USA (2021-12-15)

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SPORTSPERSON of the YEAR FEATURES

40

BILLIE JEAN

KING

For five

decades, the

Muhammad Ali

Legacy Award

winner has

been an

unflinching

champion

for equality

BY JENNY VRENTAS

48

ZAILA

AVANT-GARDE

Can you spell

success?

The SportsKid

of the Year

dazzles

with her

intellect as

well as her

basketball skills

BY MARK BECHTEL

50

THE YEAR IN

PICTURES

Several

all-time greats

burnished

their legacies,

while a crop of

rising young

stars made

their first

marks in the

history books

66

LAMELO

BALL

The globe-

trotting guard,

with pizzazz

as a passer,

transformed

the previously

faceless

Hornets into

a hot ticket

BY CHRIS MANNIX

76

THE YEAR IN

MEDIA

The best

sports show

on TV led to a

boom in F1’s

popularity

and changed

the life of

driver Romain

Grosjean

BY SHAKER SAMMAN

88

OLYMPIC

STARS

Unheralded

Suni Lee

bounded

into the

breach, while

Caeleb Dressel

lived up to his

substantial hype

BY STEPHANIE APSTEIN

AND PAT FORDE

96

NOVAK

DJOKOVIC

The most

controversial

man in tennis,

who missed

the Grand Slam

by one match,

will soon be

the most

accomplished

BY L. JON WERTHEIM

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WORK OF ART

He’s freakishly good—and freakishly

photogenic. Seemingly everything Bucks unicorn

Giannis Antetokounmpo did in the Finals

against the Suns deserved to be documented.

GREG NELSON

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