Mayweather - the highest earning athlete in the world - put down the bet on the game between the Indiana Pacers and the Heat, Vegas Gambling Steam tweeted before the game.
The Heat were a seven-point favorite against the Pacers, and luckily for Mayweather, the team ended up soundly beating their opponents, 99-76, more than doubling the sports star's bet.
Mayweather apparently made the bet just after he signed a six-fight $200 million with Showtime and agreed to fight Canelo Alvarez in September for some $40 million.
The boxer is no stranger to gambling, and winning, but even for him the almost $6 million wager is unheard of.
Vegas Gambling Steam broke the news of the $5.9M bet on Twitter.
"Good source from my #HeavyHitters Vegas crew alerted me that Floyd Mayweather has laid over $5,900,000 on Heat -7 tonight in Vegas," the tweet read.
"This is kind of ridiculous. C'mon Floyd," Benjamin Lee Eckstein of AmericasLine.com, a nationally-syndicated odds column, told the New York Daily News.
"I know that there have been people who walked into a casino and bet a million dollars, but not on basketball. It was always the Super Bowl."
According to Vegas Gambling Steam, the wager was so large Mayweather had to spread the bet across nine sportsbooks.
Beting parlors are notoriously tight-lipped about who wagers what and how much, but Mayweather usually isn't. It shouldn't be too long before he tweets a photo of the cash and the betting slip.
Beting parlors are notoriously tight-lipped about who wagers what and how much, but Mayweather usually isn't. It shouldn't be too long before he tweets a photo of the cash and the betting slip.
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