By Sandy Dover
As featured by Yahoo!
By all accounts, Dwight Howard, former Orlando Magic wunderkind, Los Angeles Lakers defector, and current Houston Rockets star center, has had a promising, but loopy whirl in the signature shoe game. A longtime endorser and product pitchman for adidas, Howard has had, by most accounts, a very respectable shoe line. All have been capable performers, and most have been fairly successful. After spending his lone season with the Lakers in his underwhelming adipower Howard 3 and D Howard 3 Light shoes, the brand with the three stripes has given the former Superman 2.0 a new lease on his footwear life with the D Howard 4 (shown in full detail here).
Built on adidas’ new Crazyquick platform, which is actually formally the new Puremotion platform for adidas performance footwear, the DH4 is a strong shoe, at least aesthetically. To be frank, it’s the first shoe that Howard has really worn that makes sense for his game. The best center in the NBA for almost a full decade now (Pau Gasol and Tim Duncan are combination big men as power forwards/centers), Howard is powerful and big, but he’s also dexterous and fast; often shoes for players who play the post and are 6’10” and 260 lbs. are like combat boots, but the DH4 is anything but. …
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