A star-studded night in Los Angeles brought out some of the biggest stars in professional sports and Hollywood for the 2011 ESPY awards last Wednesday and Excel was well represented.
Taking the top honor of the night were the Dallas Mavericks, who won for Best Team, capping their epic championship run with a little more hardware.
Jason Kidd accepts the Mavericks' award for Best Team at the 2011 ESPY Awards.
The Mavs, of course, feature two Excel clients, Tyson Chandler and Jason Kidd, both of whom were on hand as the team received the award. Jason accepted the award for the Mavs and thanked the fans for voting Dallas to the top.
"On behalf of my teammates, our owner Cuban, we'd like to thank the fans for voting for us," Kidd said. "We had a heck of a year, but we wouldn't have done it if we weren't a team."
One other Excel athlete brought home hardware as Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, already the NBA Rookie of the Year, accepted the award for Breakthrough Athlete.
"I appreciate this. This is awesome. I always dreamed about winning one of these so thank you first and foremost to God, my family, my brother, my teammates and most importantly to all the fans."
Blake, Tyson and Kevin Love would also be seen later in the broadcasts in one of the comedic sketches: Lockout Professionals. Check out that segment below:
In addition, Blake and Kevin staged a couple of epic Jenga games backstage, which can be seen here. Kevin also joined actor Jonah Hill to present the award for Best Game.
Kevin Love and actor Jonah Hill meet at the microphone before presenting the ESPY for Best Game.
UConn star and Charlotte Bobcats rookie Kemba Walker was also in attendance at the awards show and was nominated for Best Male College Athlete.
Congratulations to all the Excel athletes who were nominated for and received awards. Thanks for another great year!
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