Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather showed his support for the Los Angeles Clippers as J.J Redick sunk a clutch buzzer-beater to see off the Portland Trail Blazers.

The 39-year-old sat courtside with Supergirl actor Mehcad Brooks and girlfriend Doralie Medina as he enjoyed the close-fought action going on in front of him.

Clippers point guard Chris Paul even came over for a chat with the former multi-weight world champion.

Mayweather, from Michigan – who has a record of 49 wins from 49 bouts – skips from state to state watching his beloved NBA and was happy to point out the games finer points to his friend Brooks.

They cannot have been disappointed by the action on the court as Redick got the Clippers back to winning ways with his clutch shot.

With 1.1 seconds left on the clock, Paul inbounded the ball to Redick cutting off a screen through Mason Plumlee’s legs.

Under pressure from a C. J. McCollum the shooting guard sunk his jumper to end the Clippers (44-27) three-game losing streak.

Despite the Clippers mini-slump they are still a well-placed fourth in the Western Conference play-off picture, sitting behind only the untouchable Golden State Warriors in the Pacific Division.

Redick and co had made just two three-pointers all night until the final minute, when Crawford hit one off a DeAndre Jordan offensive rebound to give LA the lead.

In a wild finale the Blazers’ Damian Lillard followed an and-one basket with the free throw to give the his team a two-point advantage.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER equalled the record of Rocky Marciano by improving to 49-0, courtesy of a victory over Andre Berto in Las Vegas last September. Berto is a competent boxer but has lost three times to men much less accomplished than Mayweather.

Floyd has said it was his last fight, but I wouldn’t bet on it. This is professional boxing, where the truth is merely what you want someone to hear on any given day. Yet what if we took Mayweather at his word – how would he be viewed if he does bow out with a perfect ledger one short of the half century?

Mayweather has undoubtedly spent longer operating at world level than Marciano did. Rocky contested seven world title fights (all at heavyweight), between September 1952 and September 1955, a spell of three years.

Floyd has boxed 25 world title contests, more than half his career total of fights. He has held world crowns all the way from super-featherweight (130lbs) up to light-middle (154lbs), starting in 1998 – a whopping 17 years ago.

Over their entire careers, you’d have to concede that Mayweather has mixed with better opposition, and for longer. Why, then, is it so hard for boxing fans to rejoice in his achievements?

Well, the sport has changed considerably since Marciano’s day. Rocky spent the last couple of years of World War II serving in the US Army, had a limited amateur career and when he did turn pro, in 1947, it was in virtual anonymity. He did a lot of his early boxing in Providence, Rhode Island and small Massachusetts towns; it wasn’t until his 23rd pro fight that he got to fight in the boxing capital, New York City.

It was different for Mayweather. He won a bronze medal at an edition of the Olympics held in his US homeland (Atlanta, 1996) and turned pro as a budding star with promotional powerhouse Top Rank. He later split from them and has since become extremely wealthy planning his own career, but nobody can deny that Top Rank did a superb job in the early days. They gave him the right learning fights at the right time, with the result that he became world champ in only his 18th pro bout.

So Floyd hasn’t had to overcome the obstacles Marciano had placed in his path on the way to glory. And don’t forget that Rocky was boxing at a time when, to earn a title crack, you couldn’t just pick and choose who you fought, avoiding those you felt might trouble you.

The closest Marciano came to professional defeat was when he tangled with another prospect, the 37-0 Roland LaStarza, over 10 rounds in March 1950. Rocky came through via a close split decision and would later knock out LaStarza (11 rounds) in a world title defence.

Mayweather has benefited from a proliferation of weight classes and sanctioning bodies offering watered-down titles, allowing him to pick opponents at times (and weights) that suited him.

Marciano had one title defence that could be called “easy”, against Britain’s game but underpowered Don Cockell in May 1955. Four months later he had to get off the floor to knock out big-hitting light-heavy champ Archie Moore and, realising he was slipping, called it a day.

However you compare Mayweather and Marciano – and they’re both great fighters – nobody will ever confuse Andre Berto with Archie Moore. If Mayweather does reach 49-0 against him, he will have equalled Marciano in numbers only.

The amount of sexual assault allegations that have been hurled at once-beloved comedian, Bill Cosby over the past two years is incredibly disturbing, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. thinks the media is devoting too much time to covering the scandal.

In a chat with TMZ Sports this week, Mayweather said he believes we should be concerning ourselves more with race issues than what Cosby has been accused of.

“Racism still exists. That’s no difference from the Bill Cosby situation,” Floyd said. “What he did is not right, but there’s so much police brutality out there and things we don’t talk about. There’s a lot of young black males and females being killed by police, being beat up by police. Those are the things we don’t talk about. We’d rather talk about stuff with Bill Cosby that happened 30 or 40 years ago.”

Mayweather was then asked directly if he thinks race plays a role in the way the Cosby scandal has been covered, and he brought up Jared Fogle’s child porn charges and Hollywood director Woody Allen’s sexual abuse allegations. Both Fogle and Allen are white.

“Those things are going on, but we seem to turn our heads the other way and don’t look at things like that,” Mayweather said.

Acrossnearly two decades, 46 different men have stepped into the ring with Floyd Mayweather, a couple of them twice.

No one ever really hit him. No one ever cornered him into a brawl. No one was able to match his boxing talent and turn him into a desperate brawler in a desperate brawl … the kind fans understandably want to watch.

Saturday was no different. Ultimately, Manny Pacquiao was no different, left chasing and swinging and getting popped in the face and in the end … failing. Maybe it would’ve been different five years go, or even three, but who knows. Mayweather may have figured it out then too.

Floyd Mayweather once again won handily here at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, taking the megafight with a unanimous decision, 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112.

For the 16,507 who paid big bucks to be here in person and the even bigger audience that tuned in on pay-per-view, the ones that pay attention to boxing only so often, this may have been a boring fight.

Fair enough. But this wasn’t so much a boring fight as a Floyd Mayweather fight, and you can label it dull if you wish, rail that he just doesn’t excite the masses with the offense everyone craves, but this is exactly what was likely to happen.

There is a wizard-like quality to what the man has accomplished in the ring.

“Manny Pacquiao is a tough competitor,” Mayweather said after. “My dad [and trainer] wanted me to do more. He’s a very awkward fighter. I had to take my time and watch him very close.”

It’s not exactly the stuff that sends chills through a crowd but that was what this fight was about, Mayweather watching closely and figuring Pacquiao out. That’s boxing. It can’t all be Hagler-Hearns.

There was an old Mike Tyson line about going into a fight and hearing about his opponent’s strategy to take him out.

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” Tyson said.

Against Mayweather, everyone has a plan until they can’t punch him in the mouth.

Sure, everybody wishes it was like Tyson. Everybody loved those epic bouts; the raw fury and anything-could-happen next feel to a fight. It’s boxing at its most primal.

Mayweather is the exact opposite, as sure as death and taxes. He always controls the fight. He always makes the other guy bend to his will and his way, what will and way he believes will be the most successful.

He’s also more successful than Iron Mike could’ve ever dreamed. “I thought I caught him many more times than he hit me,” Pacquiao said.

Compubox says otherwise, giving Mayweather a 148-81 advantage in punches landed and 81-63 in power punches.

He’s kidding himself. Mayweather dictated the pace here. Pacquiao once had a fight against Antonio Margarito, who was five inches taller and 20 pounds heavier, and Pacquiao unloaded an outrageous 1,069 punches. Against Mayweather, he could manage just 40.1 percent of that total, a one-time tornado forced into inactivity.

“All of Pacquiao’s tactical stuff, you can’t do all those things with Floyd that you can do with other fighters,” Floyd Mayweather Sr. said after. “I wasn’t getting hit by a lot of shots unless I sat there in the pocket,” Mayweather said.

So he was smart enough to realise that and change his game plan on the fly. How many fighters can do that? Mayweather got out of the pocket and moved to the outside. He was able to avoid disaster with his back to the ropes, even backed into a corner. His left was epically quick.

“I’m 10 steps ahead of any fight,” Mayweather said. “Other fighters got baited into going toe-to-toe with Manny. And that’s what he wanted.”

Did it look like Floyd was running? He actually threw more punches, 435-429.

This was a clinic. Mayweather fights are always a clinic.

It’s just an unsatisfying clinic to watch, with everyone amped up for a full-on fight, with Mayweather so easy to dislike with his history with domestic violence and arrogance to anyone who calls him on it.

In the end it doesn’t matter though. This is boxing and the man is one of the greatest pure boxers the sport has ever seen. There until he isn’t. Avoiding danger with ease. Leaving all those opponents frustrated and at times furious.

This has been an exciting era for the sport, especially in the weight classes that fluctuate around 140 pounds. Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Marcos Maidana, Antonio Margarito, “Sugar” Shane Mosley and so on.

There have been so many epic clashes between them, so many huge knockouts, so many thrilling back-and-forth battles. The mainstream sports fan didn’t watch those. They didn’t get pay-per-view orders so big the cable companies crumbled trying to meet demand.

None of the great fights really occurred when they took on the king of this generation. None of them could catch Mayweather flush, get ahead on the cards, make him dig deep and slug it out. None. And none may ever do it. He says he’ll fight once more, in September, and then call it a career.

“I’m almost 40 years old,” Mayweather said.

Floyd Mayweather is the undisputed champ, best of the best of this time, and yet he may never have had a truly memorable fight, never that lonely moment of panic where you just didn’t know.

He’s too good. He’s too fast. He may be too boring.He’s also 48-0.