Miami Heat Become Vice City for One Night Before GTA 6
The NBA team will wear special kits and play on themed hardwood against the Bucks on November 18, hours before the game unlocks.
The Miami Heat will rebrand as Vice City for a single home game on November 18, the eve of GTA 6. The NBA side hosts the Milwaukee Bucks at the Kaseya Center in a fixture billed as A Night in Vice City, with a special hardwood court built for the occasion and a new uniform design used for one night only. The match tips off at 7pm ET and airs nationally on ESPN, roughly five hours before the game unlocks on the US East Coast. The arena already carried Vice City signage, and the team promises extra activities across the evening.
Alongside the takeover, the Heat opened a Vice City Collection of merchandise featuring fourteen items, most of them t-shirts priced between $45 and $110; the sold-out piece is a souvenir tee carrying the joke that the buyer went to Vice City and came back with only a shirt. For the Bucks, the game is a return to Milwaukee for Giannis Antetokounmpo, who spent his whole career there until this season. GTA 6 is reportedly nearing six million copies sold, with pre-sales above $570 million, and some Miami officials have raised concerns about the scale of the campaign.
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Where this story ran: 3 outlets on 2 October 2026. The summary above is written by GamersGuild; the links go to the original reports.