The Miami Heat’s Leaked ‘Vice’ Look This Season Might Be Even Better Than Last Year


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Nike’s first year as the NBA’s official uniform provider had its ups and downs, but one of their undeniable home runs came via the Miami Heat. While they weren’t announced right away, the Heat’s City Edition threads — which became affectionately known as their Vice unis — made waves right when they dropped.

While there was no word on whether Nike and the Heat would bring back this look for the 2018-19 season, one thing was for sure: The bar was going to be set incredibly high for both sides to knock this out of the park. This was taken to another level on Tuesday morning, when Zach Lowe of ESPN wrote this in his annual League Pass rankings:

I am sworn to secrecy about the yet-to-be-unveiled uniforms and, umm, accompanying art, but let’s just say they are perfect. I don’t even know how the players on either team will be able to perform basketball things when the Heat wear them. I’d just stare at them.


Seems pretty good! For those of us who are big fans of the Vice look and got excited at this news, something even better hit the internet on Tuesday. According to a Florida International University student named Eyad, a series of images hit the web that appear to show two new Vice uniforms — one black and one pink — with a matching floor.

We’ve reached out to Eyad for comment, and we’ll update this post as more information becomes available. It’s important to remember that Nike can go in a different direction, and a more skeptical person would say the pink uniforms are more of a concept while the black ones would be real. While time will ultimately tell if this is the case, if these end up being real, the Heat would have knocked the Vice concept out of the park for the second year in a row.

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