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WE’RE NOT MASSIVE basketball fans in this country, but we are pretty sure a game doesn’t always involve this kind of carry on at half-time.

At an NBA game this week the Sacramento Kings staged a baby race. Yes, they lined up a load of babies who can’t even walk and then shouted at them to make them race.

Needless to say, most of them were having none of it, but one little trooper stormed ahead and won, we assume, some kind of prize.

We feel this poor dote deserves a special mention:

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