EXCELLENCE IN SPORTS PERFORMANCE YEARLY awards winners:
Best Fighter - Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao
Best Team - Dallas Mavericks
Best Male Athlete and Best NBA Player - Dirk Nowitzki
Best Coach/Manager - Rick Carlisle
Best Breakthrough Athlete - NBA rookie Blake Griffin
Pound-for-pound king Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao wins the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award or ESPY Best Fighter Award.
Pacquiao beat out fellow nominees Bernard Hopkins, Sergio Martinez, Roy Jones, and George St. Pierre for the honor.
Pacquiao also won the award in 2009.
Other awardees of the event was current NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks, who were named Best Team, according to ESPN.com.
Dirk Nowitzki was named Best Male Athlete and Best NBA Player, while Mavs coach Rick Carlisle was named Best Coach/Manager. NBA rookie Blake Griffin was also honored as Best Breakthrough Athlete.
The awards were given at the Nokia Center in Los Angeles.
The ESPY awards is given yearly by the US sports cable network, ESPN.
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