Stephen Curry, Jake Arrieta collect first awards at ESPYS

— -- The first award of the 2016 ESPYS was given to Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry for best record-breaking performance.

Curry, the reigning two-time NBA MVP, broke his own record for most made 3-pointers in a season as the Warriors went on to win an NBA-record 73 regular-season games.

"We had a great year, we got beat by a great team," Curry said in accepting the award and acknowledging Golden State's NBA Finals loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Curry also took time out of his brief acceptance speech to thank fellow NBA stars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James for their message of social change that began the award ceremony.

Chicago Cubs right-hander Jake Arrieta took home best breakthrough performance honors, edging out MMA star  Conor McGregor, three-time gold-medal-winning snowboarder Chloe Kim and NBA Rookie of the Year Karl-Anthony Towns.

Arrieta, 30, recorded an MLB-best 22 wins and a second-best 1.77 ERA en route to winning the 2015 National League Cy Young Award. He also helped the Cubs to an NLCS appearance, their first since 2003. In April 2016, he became just the third Cub to throw two no-hitters. Presenters Lindsey Vonn and J.J. Watt accepted the ESPY on Arrieta's behalf.

U.S. Army Sgt. Elizabeth Marks was the recipient of this year's Pat Tillman Award for Service.

Marks overcame a devastating injury in Iraq and lung disease to become a world-class paraswimmer.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Eric Berry won the award for comeback player of the year.

Berry was diagnosed in November 2014 with Hodgkin's lymphoma and missed the rest of the season, but he was cleared to return to football by both personal physicians and team doctors shortly before the start of training camp last summer.

He earned his starting spot back, and over the last several games of the 2015 season played as well as he had at any time before his illness.

Berry finished third on the Chiefs in tackles and had two interceptions. After the season, he played in the fourth Pro Bowl of his six-year NFL career.

"I'm not accepting this award for me, I'm accepting this for all the fighters out there," Berry said in his acceptance speech.

James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love accepted the award for best moment for making Cleveland a championship city for the first time in over 50 years.

The Cavaliers accomplished the feat by overcoming a 3-1 series deficit to defeat the Warriors and win the NBA title.

The family of Zaevion Dobson accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in his honor.

The 15-year-old Tennessee native and high school football player was shot and killed while trying to protect girls from gunfire.