Newsday’s fifth annual list of top New York sports stars entering the new year features the usual comings and goings, this time in the wake of a sports year upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s to a 2021 that is more . . . normal.
The same rules apply as always as we look ahead through the lens of these 20 big names: Current athletes only. No coaches, executives or radio hosts. And only players based east of the Hudson, other than the Jets and Giants.
Also, as usual: Ability and accomplishments obviously count, but star power is the deciding factor.