photo credit Lebron James won Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsperson Of The Year” award in part because of his continued willingness to speak out on social injustices and use his platform as one of the most popular athletes in the world to bring awareness. During his acceptance speech last night, he made sure to say that everything going on is bigger than him and paid homage to past greats in the sports world such as Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Muhammad Ali for paving the way for a night like last night.