Best Team ESPY Award

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The Best Team ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional, collegiate, or national team, irrespective of nationalityThrough 2019, only teams situated in or representing the United States or constituent of a major North American professional league had been honored. or sport contested, adjudged to be the best in a specified twelve-month period preceding the awards ceremony. In 2001, the award was bifurcated and the resulting honors were styled as the College Team of the Year and Pro Team of the Year ESPY Awards; the awards were joined once more in 2002.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous.Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002. The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

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!Year

!Team

!League or competition

!Sport

1993

|Dallas Cowboys

|National Football League

|American football

1994

|Toronto Blue Jays

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

1995

|New York Rangers

|National Hockey League

|Ice hockey

1996

| UConn Women's Basketball Team

|National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I

|Basketball

1997

|New York Yankees

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

1998

|Denver Broncos

|National Football League

|American football

1999

|New York Yankees (2)

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

2000

|United States Women's National Soccer Team

|1999 FIFA Women's World Cup

|Association football (soccer)

2001

|New York Yankees (3)

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Oklahoma Sooners

|Major League Baseball

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National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A

|Baseball

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American football

2002

|Los Angeles Lakers

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2003

|Anaheim Angels

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

2004

|Detroit Pistons

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2005

|Boston Red Sox

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

2006

|Pittsburgh Steelers

|National Football League

|American football

2007

|Indianapolis Colts

|National Football League

|American football

2008

|Boston Celtics

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2009

|Los Angeles Lakers (2)

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2010

|New Orleans Saints

|National Football League

|American football

2011

|Dallas Mavericks

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2012

|Miami Heat

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2013

|Miami Heat (2)

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2014

|Seattle Seahawks

|National Football League

|American football

2015

|United States Women's National Soccer Team (2)

|2015 FIFA Women's World Cup

|Association football (soccer)

2016

|Cleveland Cavaliers

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2017

|Golden State Warriors

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2018

|Houston Astros

|Major League Baseball

|Baseball

2019

|United States Women's National Soccer Team (3)

|2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

|Association football (soccer)

2020

| colspan=3 align=center|Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021

|Tampa Bay Buccaneers

|National Football League

|American football

2022

|Golden State Warriors (2)

|National Basketball Association

|Basketball

2023

|Kansas City Chiefs

|National Football League

|American football

2024

|South Carolina Gamecocks

|National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I

|Basketball

See also

References

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  • {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020223000325/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/espyawrd.shtml#team |title=Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com |date=2002-02-23}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090711161438/http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/specialsection/espys2009/#/bestof/ List of winners from ESPN's ESPY's site]

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Category:ESPY Awards

Category:Awards established in 1993

Category:1993 establishments in the United States