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Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. meet at the Miami Heat Milwaukee Bucks game.
It happened Tuesday night, but it was not for a long-awaited showdown in the ring. Instead, both were courtside in Miami for the Heat game against the Milwaukee Bucks -- Mayweather next to the Heat bench and Pacquiao directly across from him on the opposite sideline.At halftime, the two welterweight champions and future Hall of Famers, whom the world has wanted to see fight, met briefly and spoke with each other.
"He gave his number to me and said we will communicate with each other," Pacquiao said, according to The Associated Press, adding that he had never before met Mayweather in person, although they previously talked on the phone and Pacquiao once appeared on one of Mayweather's undercards in 2001.
Asked to clarify whether the exchange meant the two would negotiate directly about meeting in the ring, Pacquiao said that was the case.
"We did meet and chat but I don't want to say what we discussed," Michael Koncz, Pacquiao's adviser, who was with the boxers, said when reached by ESPN.com on his cellphone during halftime. "It was a private discussion. They had a private, friendly discussion, and that's all I really want to say."
Koncz said the presence of both at the game was "purely a coincidence."
Mayweather is a regular at Heat games. Pacquiao was in Miami to serve as a judge at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday night. Koncz said they had planned to travel to New York after the pageant, but with a blizzard hitting the Northeast, they decided to stay in Miami for a few extra days.
Pacquiao, a huge NBA fan, is a player-coach in a professional league in his native Philippines and has a friendly relationship with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
The Miami Heat tweeted, "We'd like to welcome @floydmayweather & @MannyPacquiao to tonight's game!" Included with the message was a photo of the two at the game.
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