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“Називайте речі своїми іменами”: донька Маска прокоментувала нацистський салют батька
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THIS is the hilarious moment Conor McGregor size up 7ft 1in NBA star Brook Lopez DURING a game.
The brilliant incident came as Lopez’s Milwaukee Bucks beat the Utah Jazz 125-110 on Monday.
The victory saw the Bucks soar to fourth in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Standings.
But the highlight of the game came when UFC legend McGregor announced himself on the court during a free throw.
The Irishman got the attention of the crowd as he made his way to the Bucks’ bench.
He then made his way along the entire team before coming to a stop opposite Lopez.
The NBA was sat down with a towel over his head.
Yet he was hilariously still taller than McGregor, who stands at 5ft 7in.
‘Notorious’ saw the funny side too as he engaged Lopez in a quick chat.
The basketball player seemed to love the banter though and eventually stood up to completely tower over McGregor before the pair jokingly sized up.
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Lopez later lifted the lid on his chat with the MMA icon.
He said: “McGregor asked me how tall I was. I let him know. He asked me to stand up and I did.
“I knew at that point, once I got up, I had to size him up, I had to do a little something. I’ve seen face-offs before so I knew I had to do my part.
“Now, if something’s going to happen, maybe Dame (Damian Lillard) can be my promoter or manager, teach me to fight.
“I’ve got nothing. So I’m really going to rely on Dame for that.”
Fans certainly enjoyed the hilarious clash between Lopez and McGregor.
One said: “Notorious only dude to get away with that s**t.”
Another declared: “Conor can’t reach that height.”
One noted: “McGregor wanted to meet the GOAT.”
Another added: “Should start training.”
CORK goalkeeper Micheál Aodh Martin has called for the return of football’s short kick-out to speed up the game.
While the Rebels stopper feels the sport’s rule changes are “more positive than negative”, he sees the requirement for kick-outs to travel beyond the 40-metre arc as a backward step.
Cork defeated Meath 2-19 to 0-21 in Division 2 on Saturday and Martin said: “There were three short kick-outs in the whole game. We had two, they had one.
“Nearly everything’s going long, there’s a lot of bodies out there and that’s one, I don’t know will they look at it again.
“Because of the other rule changes, the quick kick-out isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the world if they brought that back in. You can’t go back to your keeper, which means it has to go forward.
“It’s nearly slowing the game down at the moment, but look, that’s just an opinion. Some people love the contest. I get that as well.”
Martin had worried about a lack of goals under the new rules but the numbers of one-on-one scenarios in games and training have eased those concerns.
He added: “I would have had a fear a couple of months ago that maybe goals would be gone, with the difference between a two-pointer and a three-pointer.
“But actually what we’re finding so far is that because you don’t really have an option to develop a sweeper, it’s quite a lot of goal chances in every game. There’s a lot more one-v-one battles.
“And the three up means that there’s ten to 15 seconds where lads have themselves versus their man, so lots of goal chances.
“That’s what people ultimately pay in for, to see exciting forwards run at their men and go for goal. There’s more space for forwards, more scores, which is only positive.”
Cork head to Down on Sunday but Martin hopes the opening win over the Royals at Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a sign of things to come on home turf if the Rebels are to mount a promotion push.
He added: “It’s such a tight division. You really have to have a good home record. We haven’t had a good enough home record over the last few years.”