{"id":404478,"date":"2026-09-19T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:08:11","slug":"miami-heat-new-player-giannis-antetokounmpo-parties-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/404478\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat new player Giannis Antetokounmpo parties in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789812489_184_MIA_AntetokounmpoandPortispresserAGS149.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Giannis Antetokounmpo was introduced to the Miami Heat at a press conference at the Kaseya Center in July.\" alt=\"Giannis Antetokounmpo was introduced to the Miami Heat at a press conference at the Kaseya Center in July.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Giannis Antetokounmpo was introduced to the Miami Heat at a press conference at the Kaseya Center in July.<\/p>\n<p>                Alie Skowronski<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo is already partying like a local.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article316048645.html#campaignName=miami_morning_newsletter\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat\u2019s newest star<\/a> hit up celebrity hotspot Gekko in Brickell for a dinner to officially mark his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The player\u2019s dining companions included his wife, Mariah Riddlesprigger, as well as hospitality guru David Grutman, who owns the Japanese steakhouse with Bad Bunny. Also seen in Antetokounmpo\u2019s entourage was teammate Tim Hardaway Jr., whose NBA legend dad who also played for the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>We were told the group enjoyed a healthy mix of the eatery\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gekko.com\/menu\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signature, upscale Asian eats,<\/a> like the $85, 16-ounce ribeye with tare, a sake-infused soy sauce. Beverages were mocktails made with IM-8, a supplement brand owned by David Beckham and Hong Kong entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/get.im8health.com\/articles\/danny-yeung-why-i-built-im8\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Yeung<\/a>, who was on site.<\/p>\n<p>Dessert? An eight-tiered \u201cWelcome to Miami\u201d cake bedecked with basketballs and pictures of the so-called Greek Freak.<\/p>\n<p>Grutman and Yeung, who are of average height for guys, posed with the 6-foot-11 athlete for an Instagram pic next to the cake.<\/p>\n<p>After the meal, Antetokounmpo didn\u2019t have far to travel to get to his bed. Earlier this month, a company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/business\/real-estate-news\/article317170220.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">linked to the power forward<\/a> bought a newly built mansion on Chapman Field Drive in Pinecrest for $13.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644725\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789812491_748_headshot.PNG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Madeleine Marr\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644725\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madeleine Marr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Celebrity\/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper\u2019s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo was introduced to the Miami Heat at a press conference at the Kaseya Center in July.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-404478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}