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There is a good chance somebody is busy designing the lightest basketball shoe ever. With each new year, new technologies and materials make that possible. As of 2014, the title of the lightest shoe went to an Adidas product, though a Nike product was not far behind.

Traditional leather-upper sneakers weighed around 20 ounces. That started to change around 2008, and by 2014 some shoes weighed under 10 ounces. They boasted nylon and plastic components, engineered and breathable mesh upper materials and lightweight soles and heel components. Each advancement helped build a lighter shoe.
As of April 2014, all three versions of the Crazy Light claimed to be the lightest basketball shoe at the time of its release. The original version launched in 2011 weighed in at 9.8 ounces and had good traction and comfort but poor ankle support according to Counterkicks and user reviews. The Crazy Light 2 from 2012 weighed 9.5 ounces, but was criticized by Counterkicks for a thin tongue that slid around during play. The Crazy Light 3, launched in July 2013, weighed 9 ounces. DimeMag wrote that its "3D molded tongue enhances comfort for the foot."There have been nine versions of the Zoom Kobe as at April 2014. The shoes, named for Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, got progressively lighter with the Nike Zoom Kobe IV at 11.6 ounces, the Kobe V at 10.6, and the Kobe VIII at 9.6. The Nike Zoom Kobe IX was released in March 2014 but weight information was not available as of publication time.

While players like Bryant made light shoes desirable, other players have done fine with the heavy old models. Regardless of weight, the shoes have to provide ankle support, stability, traction, cushioning and comfort. Inner linings, ankle padding and a thick tongue are vital too according to the Basketball Shoe Buying Guide.

From concept to prototype to the finished product — which Derrick Rose, the Chicago Bull's superstar guard, will wear in the upcoming NBA playoffs.
    
Derrick Rose is already one of the fastest players in the NBA. But when he met with designers from Adidas two years ago to discuss creating a new shoe, Rose, the white-hot point guard for the Chicago Bulls, had one request: Make me faster. Since then, Adidas has already given Rose the lightest jerseys ever constructed; on Thursday, the company unveiled the adiZero Crazy Light, which Adidas touts as the lightest shoe in basketball.

At 9.8 ounces, it's 15% lighter than its nearest competitor. A joint R&D project developed by Adidas' innovation and design teams, the Crazy Light features "sprintweb" technology, an ulta-thin exoskeleton less than 1mm thick that's seamlessly bonded to a nylon textile, which reduces weight while increasing support.
Still, unless you're Montgomery Burns, an ounce or two less weight isn't going to affect your jump shot much, nor is it likely to change how fast you can race down the court. So clearly, Adidias is using design to create a marketing buzzword — the lightest basketball shoe ever — but that's just as important as anything else in the sportswear realm.

"All shoes typically have loads and loads of layers. They'll have the outer-upper layer; then glue; then a heel-counter; then glue; then they'll have foam; and then glue; and then they'll have a liner and sock liner," says Robbie Fuller, lead product designer of the adiZero. "The goal for us was zero ounces: bare-footed. So [the layers] definitely had to get minimized."

Fuller and his team worked backward. Rather than starting with the look of the shoe, Adidas started with the foundation, testing various materials and bonding properties to make sure the shoe was as light as possible, while still being durable and flexible enough for all the pivots and crossovers you'd expect in an NBA game. As Fuller explains, the team worked it down to just two layers in certain areas, significantly reducing the amount of glue needed, and thus the weight.

"The design process did not start with a pencil," says Fuller, who studied industrial design before joining Adidas a decade ago. "Scissors, glue, sewing machines, then test, fail, start over. We learned a lot of ways how not to make a light-weight basketball shoe before we found the right way." From there, the prototype went to the drawing board, where designers spent the next year-and-a-half bringing the concept shoe to life.

The adiZero Crazy Light will hit stores June 3 for $130, available in a range of colors. But look out for the kicks on the court of this season's NBA playoffs, when a slew of players will show the league whether light-weight sneakers actually make them run faster and jump higher.

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