During Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the Denver Nuggets in Miami, McGregor went to the middle of the field and held a gag to advertise one of a thousand products related to him, a pain-relieving spray called TIDL Sport in partnership with Heat. with. The gag, when there were 7 minutes and 35 seconds left in the third quarter, foreshadowed a fight between the Irishman and Bernie, the Heat mascot, but as is often the case with McGregor, the situation went awry: perhaps Bernie’s inside man made a joke he didn’t like, maybe the fight didn’t seem realistic enough to him, the fact that he dropped poor Chris Brown with two left hooks worthy of challenges with Nate Diaz, who ended up in the hospital . One lucky guy, Brown, a dancer who has been inside this fireball-shaped puppet since 2011, noted that by American compensation standards McGregor would have to be relieved of several thousand dollars. Brown, who earns $60,000 per season for this job as mascot, is certainly not dead, on the contrary, essentially nothing has been done, so much so that the Heat have already signed off for Game 6. had announced his availability (which would not be done , given that the fifth Nuggets became champions), with the ironic words of their coach Erik Spostra: «This is the toughness I want from the team». But the specific case vanishes in the face of the character McGregor, one of the richest sportsmen in the world, even though most people have never heard of him.
