BAPE Covers adidas’ Newest Hoops Shoe in Silver Camo — Out Today

Most collaborations put a famous pattern on a famous old shoe. This one does the opposite. BAPE and adidas are out today with a new basketball silhouette — the Crazy Energy+ — finished almost entirely in silver, with BAPE’s camo worked into the shine instead of printed on top of it. It is loud in person and strangely simple on paper: one color, one pattern, one new model. Here is what is confirmed for release day.

The quick facts

Why the finish is the whole story

Look closely and the silver is not plain. BAPE’s camo sits inside the metallic surface, so the pattern appears and disappears as the light moves — ape heads and shapes in a finish that otherwise reads like polished metal. That matters because the Crazy Energy+ itself is a fairly clean, modern hoops shape. There is not a lot of vintage paneling for a collaborator to color-block, so BAPE changed the surface instead of the layout. Whether you love it will come down to one question: do you want a silver shoe? There is no quieter version of this idea, and that is clearly the point.

A new model, not another retro

We think the model choice is the interesting part. adidas has a deep archive it could have handed over, and BAPE has worked on plenty of classics before. Giving the collaboration to a current performance shoe instead says the pair is meant to be played in and worn now, not just collected as a tribute to an older era. The trade-off is honest, too: a new silhouette has no nostalgia cushion. It has to win people over on how it looks and how it feels on court, starting from zero.

How buying works today

There is no SNKRS angle on this one — that is Nike’s system, and this is not a Nike shoe. The confirmed doors are the adidas CONFIRMED app, BAPE’s own stores and website, and select retail partners, so set up the accounts you actually plan to use rather than refreshing five places at once. Check the style code before you pay: KH8660 is the silver pair. A wider BAPE x adidas collection sits around the shoe, so listings can get crowded, and the code is the fastest way to know you are looking at the right product.

Our honest read on fit and price

Full disclosure: this is a brand-new model, so nobody has months of wear in it yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our practical advice is to start with your normal adidas basketball size — the size you wear in your current hoops pair — and to buy from a door with a clear returns policy if you are between sizes, because a first-generation performance fit is exactly the kind of thing that varies by foot. On price, $200 is top-shelf basketball money. You are paying for a collaboration finish on a flagship-level court shoe, not for a basic trainer, so judge it against other performance flagships rather than against everyday beaters.

We do not carry this BAPE collaboration in our own catalog, so there is no photo of it here and we will not borrow one from somewhere else. What we do carry is already in hand, checked, and ready to ship — if the silver sells through in your size today, take a look at what is on our shelves before you chase a resale listing. Either way, if you go for a pair, go in knowing the code: KH8660, $200, out today.