The teams of Heat de Miami and the Magic de Orlando They plan to arrive Friday at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport from 4:00 in the afternoon, Confirmed VRGD Group, the producing firm of the NBA preseason party that will take place on Saturday at 8:00 at night at the Puerto Rico Coliseum José Miguel Agrelot.
Both the main event and the celebrity game to be held as a prelude this Friday continue standing, said the promoter company, after the incident of this morning when motorized subjects shot at the sports installation.
Saturday’s exhibition game will be the first of the NBA in Puerto Rico in 19 years, and will mark for both teams the start of the preseason games, on the route to the 2025-2026 campaign that will begin on October 21.
Between both matches, VRDG reported that they expect the assistance of about 30,000 people. Saturday’s game between Orlando and Miami was sold in its entirety.
1 / 16 | The Sixers, Hawks, Grizzlies and other NBA teams visited by Puerto Rico. Allen Iiverson, on the left, is defended by Eddie Jones during a match in 2003 at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum. – VANESSA SERRA DIAZ
The organizers of the event did cancel the press conference that was scheduled for this Friday morning in the same Coliseum of Puerto Rico. However, in a press release issued during the afternoon, the event producer confirmed that also The basketball clinic that was scheduled for the residential Luis Llorens Torres, in which it is expected to impact around 300 children of both sexes is standing. This was held on Friday in the remodeled main court of the residential complex.
The police preliminary report indicates that agents arrived at the incident scene, reported in the early hours of the morning, after receiving an alert call. The uniformed interviewed the complainant, who told them that multiple shots were heard in front of the building.
Inside the Colosseum were four employees but no one was injured.
From the area delimited by the metal fences, the marks left by the bullet impacts against the facade crystals can be observed in the distance.
1 / 18 | Photos: Look how the choliseo was after shooting at dawn. The Coliseum of Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, known as El Choliseo, was the scene of a violent incident during the early hours of October 3, 2025, when the structure received multiple bullet impacts. – Pablo Martínez Rodríguez
Will not play anuel aa
The NBA Puerto Rico Celebrity Game 2025 hopes to gather on Friday to figures such as Wisin, Denise Quiñones, Felix “Tito” Trinidad, Zuleyka Rivera, Carlos Beltrán, Ivan Rodríguez, Yadier Molina, Zion, Luar La L, Tito el Bambino, Raymond Arrieta, Jowell, Miky Woodz, Jencarlos Canela, And the newly crowned champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Xander Xayas, will be among the participants of the meeting.
The interpreter of the urban genre Anuel AA will not be present for commitments abroad, VRDG Group reported.
But it is expected, as reported in advance, that they also say figures of both NBA organizations, such as former players Alonzo Mourning and Glen Rice, for the Heat, and Nick Anderson for the Magic.
These will serve as coaches of celebrity teams, together with the national team excanters José “Piculín” Ortiz y Carlos Arroyoboth former players also from the NBA.
The celebrity teams will wear the official uniforms of both teams in the NBA.
The doors of the Coliseum of Puerto Rico will open to the public this Friday from 6:00 in the afternoon.
