In a dramatic year in sports, the No. 1 most Googled athlete became famous for his antics off the basketball court.
In a year that featured LeBron James’ move to the Lakers, the Philadelphia Eagles’ first Super Bowl win, Serena Williams fighting with an official and multiple Olympic records being set, the United States’ most Googled athlete of 2018 was… Tristan Thompson?
Thompson’s Cleveland Cavaliers are an abysmal 6-21 through their first 27 games without LeBron, but it isn’t the power forward’s play that got him all that attention this year.
