MIAMI (AP) — Lionel Messi took a night off to watch the Miami Heat. The Inter Miami star and eight-time Ballon d’Or winner as the world’s best player — along with teammates Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez — arrived just before tip-off of the Heat playoff game with the Boston Celtics on Monday night. Messi’s group — some clad in Heat attire and Busquets wearing a Heat hoodie — arrived in the players’ parking garage, then were brought in through a VIP entrance before making their way to their seats in a suite atop the lower level. Messi has been to the arena before for at least one other event, but never before had arranged to be at a Heat game since moving to Miami last year. Inter Miami is 6-2-3 so far this season in Major League Soccer play, sitting in first place in the Eastern Conference and with the most points of any team in the league. |
Emma Raducanu withdraws from French Open qualifying to focus on grass seasonCaicedo scores from halfway as Chelsea ends Premier League season with fifth straight winBohm and Harper lead the streaking Phillies to a sweep of the Nationals with 11Paul McCartney song starts Paralympics on 100Arsenal gets late winner against Everton but has to settle for second place in Premier LeagueEmma Raducanu withdraws from French Open qualifying to focus on grass seasonBrazil's Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the MoorsBoat collision in Canada leaves 3 dead and 5 injured, Ontario police sayWho is Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's president involved in helicopter incidentThe gonzo trans Mexican drug lord musical 'Emilia Perez' lights up Cannes