Cactus Jack and Nike Make the Miami Heat a GTA VI Vice City Uniform

Travis Scott's Cactus Jack, Nike and Grand Theft Auto VI have made an NBA uniform. On Friday, November 6, Cactus Jack's own account announced that the three had partnered with the NBA and the Miami Heat to create the Vice City uniform: the Heat will wear an exclusive on-court Cactus Jack Nike version during their game on Wednesday, November 18, and a Swingman Vice City Jersey and Vice City Shorts will be available in limited quantities starting that day. The Heat's own post put it as Miami HEAT x Rockstar Games x Cactus Jack x Nike, available November 18 at A Night in Vice City, and its page says the uniform is available for purchase on the 18th at the event.

The night is the point. The Heat's page for it bills A Night in Vice City as a "never-been-done-before event on the eve of the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI", at 7pm EST at Kaseya Center, with the Heat playing as Vice City on "special hardwood built for Vice City". The opponent, per the Heat's reel, is the Bucks. Grand Theft Auto VI, the game Vice City comes from, is out the next day, November 19, the same day as its soundtrack album.

The uniform

The Swingman jersey, the one that sells, is black with hot pink and white trim. Vice City runs across the chest in a white script outlined in pink over a white 7, a VI patch with two palm trees sits on the chest opposite the pink Swoosh, and six pink stars line up above the jock tag, which reads Cactus Jack Edition. The Cactus Jack logo scrawl is on the hem and on the shorts, which carry a VI tab on the waistband, the stars down the side seam and a pink Heat logo on the leg.

Miami Heat

The on-court version the players wear is a different jersey: HEAT 13 in pink outline on black, the letters and numbers filled with a fine map-like pattern, the Robinhood sponsor patch in pink, and Adebayo across the back of the 13. The Heat's post shows both side by side under the words on court and Swingman uniforms, photographed on a car wrapped in pink camouflage and lettered Coquette.

Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack

What else is on sale

The Heat have already started selling Vice City merchandise under their Court Culture line, in person and online at the Miami HEAT Store: a satin bomber with The Wild Collective, a New Era 9FIFTY snapback, a Welcome to Vice City neon sign, a pool-service pocket tee with Duvin, Grill and Souvenir oversized tees and an I love Vice City crop top. Inside the arena on the 18th, the page says, the game's fast-food chains Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell open at select concessions, Burger Shot in sections 105, 120, 308 and 324 and Cluckin' Bell in section 325.

What's missing is a price and an online date for the uniform itself. Neither Cactus Jack nor the Heat has given one; for the uniform, the Heat's page offers a sign-up for the drop and nothing more, and its promises of more to come are about game-night activities and merchandise. Nike's and Rockstar's own accounts couldn't be read for this story, so everything above comes from Cactus Jack's and the Heat's.

Our read

Most of what Cactus Jack and Nike make together is footwear, which is JustFreshKicks' beat. This is apparel, and apparel of a kind a brand can't make on its own: an NBA uniform needs the league and a team, which is why the Heat, not a Nike store, are the ones selling it. For Rockstar it's an ad on the night before launch, a real team wearing the name of the game's city. The Heat, for their part, have worn pink before: their Vice uniforms, the 1988 silhouette in what NBA.com called laser fuchsia and blue gale, were the team's City Edition look in 2017-18 and again in 2018-19, and last season's City Edition brought back The Original Vice Nights for an encore, per NBA.com's unveiling. Cactus Jack's version takes that pink and hands it to Rockstar's Vice City. Limited quantities, sold at the game per the Heat, is a recipe for resale prices by tip-off.