The UFC star slammed the Miami Heat mascot on the canvas.
Conor McGregor’s promotional speech did not please the basketball public. EPA / AOP
Freestyle star Conor McGregor got under the skin of basketball fans badly in the fourth game of the NBA Finals in Miami.
McGregor stepped onto the floor during a break in the match and began promoting his company’s new cold spray unabashedly. He grabbed the microphone and presented the spray bottle on the big screen.
Miami Heat’s home crowd booed the Irishman mercilessly, but the worst was yet to come.
Next, the Heat’s cool mascot Burnie arrived on the court wearing big golden boxing gloves. McGregor knocked the creature out with a vicious left hand hook.
Burnie fell to the canvas and the UFC star hit him in the head a second time just to be sure. The mascot was dragged by the legs to be cared for.
The crowd’s booing only increased when McGregor ended the show by injecting the knocked out mascot with his cold spray.
Even though it was just a show, the mascot had a hard time. McGregor’s blow was so hard that the man inside Burnie was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. of The Athletic he was given painkillers. Since then, however, the man got home and is doing well.
McGregor was sitting in the front row during the match between the Heat and the Denver Nuggets. NBC’s according to that, for the seats in the front row in the fourth final match, you could pay an unfathomable 27,800 dollars, i.e. around 25,800 euros.
The Nuggets won Game 4 108–95 and lead the Finals series 3–1.