adidas has officially unveiled the adiZero Crazy Light 2, the even lighter follow-up to the 9.8-ounce adiZero Crazy Light. Crazy Light 2 brings the light down to 9.5 ounces, a weight adidas says is almost 10 percent lighter than any comparable competitor basketball shoe. It launches to the public on May 24 in five colorways for $140.
UPDATE: A running link list to our Crazy Light 2 coverage…
- Everything That Happened At The adidas adiZero Crazy Light 2 Media Launch Before It Happened
- Robbie Fuller’s adidas adiZero Crazy Light 2 Sketches
- Light And Bright Ruled The Day But Robbie Fuller Was Feeling Grey At Today’s Crazy Light 2 Launch
- Get To Know Slamball And Ping Pong Competitor Robbie Fuller, Who Also Designs In His Spare Time
- Get To Know adidas Hoops VP Lawrence Norman, Who Doesn’t Play Ping Pong As Far As We Know
- adidas adizero Crazy Light 2 Tech Sheet
- NBA Kicks: Crazy Light 2 Makes The Playoffs
- Not A Fan Of Aural? Here’s Our adidas adiZero Crazy Light 2 Media Launch Recap Without All The Noise
- adidas adiZero Crazy Light 2 Prototypes, Pullovers, Sketches & Samples By Designer Robbie Fuller
- adidas adizero Crazy Light 2 Media Run Footage. Also, Shoe Companies Should Stop Holding Media Runs
Full adidas press release:
WORLD’S LIGHTEST BASKETBALL SHOE GETS LIGHTER AS ADIDAS UNVEILS STRONGER, BRIGHTER ADIZERO CRAZY LIGHT 2
PORTLAND, Ore. (April 24, 2012) – adidas Basketball today unveiled the adizero Crazy Light 2. Weighing 9.5 ounces, it replaces its predecessor – the adizero Crazy Light – as the lightest shoe in basketball. The adizero Crazy Light 2 is nearly 10 percent lighter than the nearest competitor’s basketball shoe.
In addition to its lighter weight, the new adizero Crazy Light 2 is stronger, more aerodynamic and comes in brighter colors. The super-light sequel will be available May 24.
“Elite athletes are elite athletes because they’re always fighting for that competitive edge,”said Lawrence Norman, adidas vice president of global basketball. “The adizero Crazy Light 2 is that competitive edge. The shoe had a huge performance and style impact during college tournaments and we can’t wait for fans to see the adizero Crazy Light 2 in action during the NBA playoffs. When every second of every game matters, this shoe delivers faster play, stronger cuts and greater support.”
Dozens of elite players have worn the adizero Crazy Light 2 during the most important games of their lives. During the 2012 college basketball tournament, players from Kansas University, University of Louisville, Baylor University, University of Wisconsin and Indiana University showed off their speed in adizero Crazy Light 2. When the NBA playoffs begin April 28, several players will wear the adizero Crazy Light 2, which first debuted on court at the 2012 McDonald’s All American High School Games in Chicago on March 28.
“In the league, every game matters and you don’t want anything weighing you down on the court,” said Philadelphia 76ers point guard, Jrue Holiday. “Putting on the adizero Crazy Light 2 gives me that speed and confidence I need when it counts.”
“The adizero Crazy Light 2 is light done right,” said the shoe’s designer, Robbie Fuller, adidas advanced footwear concept designer. “We not only made it lighter, but we made it stronger and more aerodynamic. We work closely with the adidas Innovation Team (aIT) to continuously innovate and find that perfect weight-to-strength ratio that gives athletes better command and agility on court.”
The increased strength of the adizero Crazy Light 2 comes from an enlarged asymmetrical SPRINTFRAME, allowing for maximum motion control. Designers added volume to the midsole for a more supportive base. The new aerodynamic three-layer SPRINTWEB is the thinnest ever, with a tighter web layout that gives players enhanced vertical and horizontal strength. Overall, the shoe’s new geometry allows for maximum weight savings, energy return and motion control.
Five colorways go on sale May 24 for $140, including the electricity color seen at the McDonald’s All American Games, along with a metallic finished black/white/red look and three others. The adizero Crazy Light 2 will be available on adidas.com and at Foot Locker, Eastbay and other leading retailers.
Today, adizero continues to provide the lightest in performance footwear with lightweight shoes for basketball (adizero Crazy Light 2), football (adizero 5-Star), soccer (adizero f50), baseball (adizero 5-tool), every-day running (adizero Feather and adizero Rush), sprinting (adizero Prime track spikes).
The new adizero Crazy Light 2 also features a micoach speed_cell™ capability, helping players measure, view and share their stats. micoach technology includes an advanced accelerometer that captures 360-degree movement and measures performance metrics during practice or gameplay. The chip’s unique on-board memory stores up to seven hours of data, wirelessly syncs with the user’s smartphone and uploads performance stats that can be shared through Facebook and Twitter.
For more information, visit news.adidas.com, adidas Basketball Facebook page, or www.adidasbasketball.com.
The shoes look great, I love to see how quick, and to the point these are developing.
True tech, not just fashion. 8)
Nike’s wonderboy designer Jason Petrie has been pissing a bitch about these via twitter. Jealousy is in the air, but Nike did this to themselves by catering to celebrity, and then swoosh fan boys, those who think that their sneakers could possibly get them laid.
It’s pathetic.
You know adidas is doing it right, when this type of panicked negativity hits.
He sounds like a completely brainwashed fanboy himself though. Weaksauce Petrie, weaksauce.
i like these shoes a lot. adidas has a great team assembled. very nice ,race car aesthetic.
and jpetrie IS pissed.
but, nene, you can’t deny that this shoe would have happened without the hyperdunk. And the elite shoes, expensive and as unattainable as possible, are still the best and most thought out bball shoes on the planet.
i would put the dross 2.5′s as the best looking/performing ballin shoes on the market(kd4′s didn’t have a great fit)
i feel like you can’t deny that nike stepped their game up for THOSE shoes, however.
Does kind of remind me of the Nike Hyperfuse, with some thinner welded strips…But it also looks like an evolution of the Adizero Rose 2, or the Adizero Shadow. All of which probably took inspiration from the Nike Zoom Superfly R3 running spike.
The adizero Crazy Light 2 is nice design, especially the midsole arch form, but not ‘crazy’ or much different from whats already out there.
No doubt Nene, no doubt, Adidas must have them shook. In real life, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, especially to those that are secure within themselves and then what they may create. But since this is not imitation, then an original product from Adidas, one that Nike has completely failed at recreating, Petrie and Nike realize that they can never lay claim to this major accomplishment, the lightest ever. So they might as well be known as the company that rehashes old ideas through their retro releases, and then with their “innovations”, as with the Master P Converse ripoff, the Air Jordan 2012.
To be quite honest, Petrie’s sketches, the designs, look good on paper, but when executed in real time, they often look like the fake Spiderman in Times Square NYC.
You know that’s supposed to be Spidey, but in person, something just ain’t right.
Wait I just read the article!! SPRINTWEB, SPRINTFRAME, they forgot the Infrared Sonic Nitro Boosters, that’s also such a good technology. But good thing Adi is really KEEPIN’ IT REAAL with their “aerodynamic” claims..Can a hoop shoe really be “more aerodynamic”?? Is it because the overlays on the other shoes cause too much drag?..After reading this article I feel humbled and educated, there I was thinking the Crazy Light 2 was a sneaker, not a NASA rocket project. I hope they’ll make me jump higher, or even levitate and fly around? Oh please Adidas, please…that would be so cool!
Giving Jrue Holiday “confidence I need when it counts” sounds scripted from a Mouthwash, or Deodorant advert. I thought he was talking about cutting harder and not slipping, but he’s talking about weight reduction. I mean what NBA player is insecure about his speed and needs the shoe to give him confidence?? Seriously??
This presentation sounds like a comedy movie script..What if there was a secret insider challenge to see how much nonsense they can claim about a shoe without getting called out:)) The joke’s on you!
Well at least some people will be glad of the “enhanced Vertical Strength” the Crazy ‘Freaky’ Light 2 provides and I guess not just on the court..Maybe that’s what “feeling confident when it counts” is all about, all that “enhanced Vertical Strength”:))Oooh I’m getting all h!*Y! just thinking about it..Woah I can’t wait to wear them and get the party started!!:))
mede, just stop. petrie’s the best designer in the game right now.
I’m having to much fun up here and I’m not even high. Shoot me down someone please..I was just reading about the Adi Designers adding volume to the midsole. So Adidas needed more than 1 designer to add volume to the midsole? Sounds complicated job. Exactly how many designers were responsible for adding volume to the midsole?
I wish I could have been there for the wind tunnel “aerodynamic” testing of the Adi ‘Craazy’ Light 2..What next aerodynamic cutlery, oooh aerodynamic hamburgers! No that would be too crazy.
According to who ODB?
I mean, really?!
Artistically, he can draw, but so what? If the shoes do not do what they are supposed to do, what good are they? That’s the problem over at Nike. As a designer they have the perfect foil in Petrie, an online design sensation, one who probably cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone put it in the basket, then they have the perfect athlete in LeBron, one who has stated in Slam Mag that he does not care what he’ll play in, as he can even get it done in a pair of Timb’s! So Nike doesn’t even have to try and make a durable, well made, then functional high quality shoe for him anymore, qualities that have not come together since Ken Link was dropped from the line.
So what has Petrie done? I mean really?!
He is the Tim Tebow of shoe designers, and you know how he got his starting position!
Most athletes don’t care what they play in as long as they get paid.
Was Ken Link really dropped? Is Jason better than Robbie?
Your conversations sounds like you are playing a Fantasy Designer League game.
@ ODB, that’s delusional, the Hyperdunks simply made a ‘noticable looking’ synthetic, and sold it as lightweight-technology, the same year Nike released lighter shoes without FlyWire though, so it was a MARKETING TRICK, not technology.
THIS IS THE LIGHTEST EVER!!! No marketing, no tricks, these deliver.
And ELITE shoes suck, using a fancy-looking material like Carbon doesn’t make it good, especially if you integrate on the shoe wrong(which Petrie did), using that much plastic, and calling it ELITE is laughable, the ELITE is the same as all the LeBron shoes this season, FASHION, not performance.
The Elite-line has nothing to do with performance, or quality, there’s a reason pretty much all the guys in the NBA who used to play in LeBron shoes, now opt for Jordan Retro’s, the same ones that already have a bad name for being cheaply made, but STILL they beat out the LeBron shoes on the hardwood.
Petrie is a joke.
Sounds like this dude nene is the joke! Why you so mad??? Haha must work for adi…
im pretty convinced nene works for adidas’ pr dept.
So if someone takes an anti Nike stance, automatically they must work for the competitor?
I disagree with this assertion.
The problem lies in the pro Nike stance that many of you take, as if your lives depend upon maintaining that position. You claim how much Nike influenced the design of this shoe, when that is complete bull. You look at any shoe, then suggest that it reminds you of some other Nike shoe, as if Nike invented every shoe that has ever been created.
To people like you guys, Jesus’s sandals were influenced by Nike Huarache line, because he knew that in the future Phil Knight would be born.
So I am going to say it here, screw Nike. Their shoes have become too expensive, and then are too cheaply made, as the quality of their product is deplorable.
Adidas is doing it right, and with Under Armour doing their apparel thing, I have no issue with not ever making a Nike purchase, ever again.
Arguments aside about designers, these shoes are just pure fire. Nuff said.
Eavo, ODB, you’d be wrong, I don’t work in sportswear.
saw it in person great looking shoes. better than the Crazy 1s. need ta hoop in them now!
I’m just curious. Can anyone tell me about the durability of this shoe or the Crazy Light 1? I play a lot of basketball and had worn a pair of Converse Wade’s for about 5 or 6 years until I wore out the bottoms on them and had no traction on the court, otherwise the shoes were still in very good condition. This past December I bought a pair of Jordan Wade’s, and I have been very disappointed so far, as after just 2 months of use, the tops of the shoe started to tear. I had never bought a pair of Jordan’s before so I thought I would test them out, but now I wish my Converses still had traction on them. I’m thinking about buying a pair of the Crazy Light 2s. Can anyone give me any serious, non-biased, advice/information?
I’m really confused right now, I don’t know what to get. So, my choices are
-2012 Hyperfuse & Hyperdunk
-Crazy Light 2
-Adizero Rose 773
-Adizero Ghost 2
Which should I get?
Note: I use the Adizero Ghost right now, I’m a PG, I usually outrun my defenders, and I also roll my ankles