Two basketball players among Top 10 most-searched athletes in 2023 / News - Basketnews.com

Ja Morant is fourth in global searches, while Kyrie Irving is 10th. NFL player Damar Hamlin is in first place due to a freak life-threatening accident during a game last season.

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As the end of the year approaches, Google released the list of the most-searched things on its platform.

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The most-searched person globally was NFL player Damar Hamlin, who suffered a life-threatening injury last season during an American Football game. Naturally, he was the most-googled athlete as well.

There are two basketball players among the top 10 athletes that were searched on the platform the most. Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant is the only one in the top 5, sitting in fourth place.

He garnered tremendous attention after getting into multiple scandals involving guns. He is now serving a 25-game suspension by the NBA for flashing a gun during an Instagram Live video.

Dallas Mavericks star guard Kyrie Irving is in 10th place. The sometimes-controversial player was traded from the Brooklyn Nets in February after garnering some unwanted attention earlier in the last season following his post with a link to an anti-semitic movie, for which he was highly criticized.

Football star Kylian Mbappe is second on the list. NFL tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelce, is third, while FC Bayern Munich's football star Harry Kane is fifth on the list.

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