Best Basketball Shoes for Wide Feet (2026): A Podiatrist’s Guide
Spec analysis — not yet tested · Tom Biernacki, DPM, FACFAS · September 2026
Written and medically reviewed by Dr. Tom Biernacki, DPM, FACFAS · Last reviewed 16 October 2026
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On this page
- The short answer
- The width letter barely exists in basketball
- What the lab numbers say a “wide” basketball shoe actually is
- Why width does more work in basketball than in running
- The shortlist, wide sizes first
- Height is the number nobody quotes, and it matters here
- Fitting a wide foot into a basketball shoe
- When a wider shoe is not the answer
- Every basketball shoe on the lab’s current method, by room at the big toe
- Questions I get asked
- Related guides & shoe pages
Spec analysis — not yet tested. We have not benched a basketball shoe. Every figure on this page is a manufacturer’s or an independent lab’s and is attributed to them by name. There are no scores and no seal here on purpose: under our standard a number only appears once a pair has been weighed, worn and scored here. Editorial policy →
Here is the thing almost no page about basketball shoes for wide feet will tell you: in basketball, the width letter barely exists. Nike’s own basketball shop has no width filter at all. What you are actually shopping for is a roomy shoe in standard width — and once you know that, the whole search changes.
The short answer
Model versions: Brooks has since released the Adrenaline GTS 25. The GTS 24 named below is the previous version, still sold and usually cheaper; our spec review covers what changed.
You want an actual wide size: the New Balance P400 ($129.99), in Standard (D) or Wide (2E) on New Balance’s own site. New Balance is the only brand we found that sells a performance basketball shoe in a wide width: the P400 Low ($119.99), P350 ($109.99) and Maxey V1 ($129.99) come in Wide (2E) too. Not every P400 or P400 Low colourway comes in 2E, so choose the width before the colour.
You cannot get a wide size and need the roomiest standard-width shoe: the Jordan Luka 77 measured the widest toe box of any basketball shoe on RunRepeat’s current method, at 73.3 mm.
You want room without spending much: the Nike G.T. Cut Academy. RunRepeat lists it at $95, names it the best budget pick in its wide-toe-box guide and measured 72.5 mm at the big toe (Nike now sells an Academy 2, which has not been measured). If your whole forefoot is wide, not just your toes, the LeBron Witness 9 ($105 in RunRepeat’s listing) has one of the widest forefoots on the lab’s current method (95.8 mm) and a tall 25.9 mm toe box.
Your problem is a bunion or a neuroma rather than raw width: no basketball shoe on this page solves that. Read when a wider shoe is not the answer before you buy anything.
Where to start
Three places to start, drawn from the short answer above and the shortlist further down. We have not reviewed these shoes yet, so the buttons run an Amazon search for each model.
- You want an actual wide size: New Balance P400Standard (D) and Wide (2E) on New Balance’s own page, though not in every colourway; three more New Balance basketball shoes come in 2E too.Search Amazon — paid link
- No wide size, so the roomiest standard width: Jordan Luka 77The widest toe box of any basketball shoe on the lab’s current method.Search Amazon — paid link
- Pressure on top of the toes, not the sides: Air Jordan 40The tallest toe box of the ten roomiest at the big toe (27.3 mm). Going wider will not fix pressure from above.Search Amazon — paid link
Paid links: we earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and it never changes what is listed. A bunion or a neuroma needs more than width: read when a wider shoe is not the answer before you buy. The full shortlist is here.
The width letter barely exists in basketball
In running shoes, width is a real choice: most major brands publish a 2E, several publish a 4E, and our running shoes for wide feet page can sort eight models by how much width you can actually buy. Basketball is a different market, and so is soccer, where only New Balance sells cleats by width. Baseball is the same story, with every New Balance men’s baseball cleat sold in 2E and no wide from anyone else, and in football only four adult cleats come in a wide.
- Nike’s men’s basketball shoes page has no width filter. Colour, price, size, shoe height, collection, athlete — no width. Checked September 2026 and again on 7 October 2026.
- RunRepeat’s lab team singles out New Balance: “New Balance never skimps on toebox space and offers alternative widths”, from its review of the Fresh Foam BB v2, a model no longer on New Balance’s US site. Its review of the v3, 4 mm narrower at the big toe, calls that one “an immediate no for players with wide feet”.
- WearTesters, who wear-test basketball shoes for a living, list six shoes for wide feet and note that only the New Balance models are actually available in a 2E; the rest are recommendations to buy a roomy shoe in standard width.
So the honest framing of this search is not “which basketball shoe should I buy in 2E”. For nearly everybody it is “which standard-width basketball shoe has the most room in it”, plus one of four New Balance models if you genuinely need the letter.
We read the brands’ own US websites on 7 October 2026, 13 basketball brands in all (Nike and Jordan count as one), plus PEAK, whose US site would not load. New Balance is the only one that sells a current performance basketball shoe in a wide width: its P400, P400 Low, P350 and Maxey V1 each come in Standard (D) or Wide (2E), the P400 and P400 Low not in every colourway, and none goes wider than 2E.
On the sites of Nike and Jordan, adidas, Under Armour, PUMA, Reebok, ANTA, Way of Wade, 361°, Rigorer, Skechers and AND1 we found no basketball shoe in a wide. An Under Armour rep says its Lockdown 8 is not available in wide, and Way of Wade and 361° tell a wide foot to size up instead (half a size; for its BIG3 4.0 Quick, 361°’s global store says a full size), which the fitting advice below argues against. Converse sells a Wide Width only in its heritage Chucks, which it lists among its basketball shoes, not in its performance models. FitVille’s Rebound Core V4 High ($89), which retailers list as a wide basketball shoe, comes only in Wide (2E) and Extra Wide (4E), but FitVille sells it on walking comfort and a basketball look, so I would treat it as a casual shoe. New Balance’s Kawhi, TWO WXY, Hesi Low and Fresh Foam BB are no longer sold on its US site.
What the lab numbers say a “wide” basketball shoe actually is
RunRepeat measures the inside of each shoe’s toe box from a gel mould, with a caliper, at the big toe, in men’s US 9, standard width. Those are the same lab and the same measurement that produce the toe-box figures on our own review pages, which lets us do something useful: put the roomiest basketball shoes next to ordinary running shoes on the same scale.
| Shoe | Toe-box width | Category |
|---|---|---|
| ASICS GEL-Kayano 32 | 73.9 mm | Running |
| Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24 | 73.7 mm | Running |
| Jordan Luka 77 | 73.3 mm | Basketball |
| HOKA Clifton 10 | 73.1 mm | Running |
| Nike G.T. Cut Academy | 72.5 mm | Basketball |
| HOKA Bondi 9 | 72.5 mm | Running |
| Nike G.T. Hustle 3 | 72.4 mm | Basketball |
| Air Jordan 40 | 71.9 mm | Basketball |
| adidas Anthony Edwards 2 | 71.6 mm | Basketball |
| New Balance TWO WXY V5 | 71.2 mm | Basketball |
| Nike LeBron Witness 9 | 71.0 mm | Basketball |
| Brooks Ghost 17 | 69.6 mm | Running |
All figures: RunRepeat’s lab, internal toe-box width at the big toe, standard width. The basketball shoes are the seven in RunRepeat’s wide-toe-box guide, not the seven widest it has measured; all 50 are further down. None measured by us.
Read that list again, because the ordering is the point. The widest basketball shoe RunRepeat has measured with its current method, the Luka 77 at 73.3 mm, is narrower than a Brooks Adrenaline GTS 24 — an ordinary stability running shoe, in standard width, that nobody markets as roomy. Five of the seven “wide toe box” basketball shoes measure less than a plain HOKA Bondi 9.
What that means if you have wide feet. The wide-toe-box basketball shoe you are being sold is, dimensionally, an average running shoe. It is not the equivalent of a 2E in a running shoe — New Balance publishes 3–4 mm for a 2E and 6–7 mm for a 4E, and the entire spread across those seven basketball models is 2.3 mm. If your foot genuinely needs a width letter, no amount of picking the roomiest hoop shoe substitutes for one.
The caveat, stated plainly: this is one lab, one pair of each shoe, one size. It is enough to tell you the category is narrow, and not enough to rank two shoes 0.4 mm apart. Treat the ordering above as a rough grouping, not a leaderboard.
Update, September 2026: the running side of that comparison is now nearly seven times bigger, and it makes the point harder rather than softer. When this section was first written our library held the same lab’s big-toe figure for five running shoes. It now holds thirty-four, and they run from 67.3 mm (New Balance Made in USA 990v6) to 83.6 mm (Altra Torin 8), with a median of 72.8 mm. The seven basketball shoes in RunRepeat’s wide-toe-box guide occupy 71.0 to 73.3 mm, median 71.9 — a 2.3 mm band sitting inside a 16.3 mm one.
Two things follow from that, and only one of them is the obvious one. Twelve of the thirty-four running and walking shoes measure wider at the big toe than the widest basketball shoe this lab has measured with its current method, and the roomiest is 10.3 mm wider — about the whole difference a bunion or a bunionette is asking for. But twenty-two of the thirty-four measure the same or narrower, so the honest claim is not that running shoes are wide and basketball shoes are narrow. It is that the running category has a wide end and the basketball category does not have one at all. If what your foot needs is the top of that range, no hoop shoe yet measured reaches it, and the nearest thing is a wide-lasted trainer worn off the court.
Why width does more work in basketball than in running
Running is close to a straight-line sport. The foot loads, rolls forward and leaves, and a shoe that is a little narrow rubs. Basketball loads the foot sideways: a hard cut drives the forefoot across the footbed towards the edge of the shoe, repeatedly, for an hour.
Three consequences I see in clinic, in rough order of how often.
- Skin and nail problems first. Blisters on the fifth metatarsal and the side of the big toe, and bruised toenails, are the commonest complaints from players in a shoe that is too narrow. They are minor and they are also the earliest sign the shoe is wrong.
- Forefoot nerve symptoms next. Burning, numbness or a feeling of a pebble under the ball of the foot between the third and fourth toes is the classic neuroma pattern, and side-to-side compression in a narrow forefoot is a plausible aggravator of it. If that is what brought you here, the shoe is part of the answer and not all of it.
- Foot spilling over the footbed. If the widest part of your foot sits outside the platform underneath it, the shoe cannot hold that part of you during a cut. Players describe it as sliding inside the shoe or as the shoe rolling under them.
I would not tell you that a narrow shoe causes ankle sprains — the evidence for that specific claim is not there, and plenty of people play their whole lives in shoes too narrow for them without spraining anything. What I will say is that a foot which does not sit fully on its own platform is being asked to stabilise from a worse position, and that is a bad place to start from in the sport with the highest ankle-injury rate there is.
The shortlist, wide sizes first
Prices are the ones the sources below listed and move constantly. Because we have not reviewed any of these shoes, the buttons run an Amazon search for the model rather than pointing at a specific listing — colourways and versions on Amazon change too fast for us to vouch for an individual product page we have not checked.
| Shoe | Toe-box width | True wide size | Price | Check price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Balance P400 Wide (2E) on New Balance’s own page, on two of the four colourway listings we found | Not measured | Yes — 2E | $129.99 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| New Balance P350 Wide (2E) on New Balance’s own page, on both listings we found; the cheapest of the four New Balance models in 2E | Not measured | Yes — 2E | $109.99 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| Jordan Luka 77 Widest toe box on the lab’s current method, and among the cheapest shoes here | 73.3 mm | No | $105 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| Nike G.T. Cut Academy Among the widest on the lab’s current method, 0.8 mm behind the Luka 77; the takedown version of Nike’s cutting shoe. Nike now sells an Academy 2, which RunRepeat has not measured | 72.5 mm | No | $95 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| Nike G.T. Hustle 3 Second-widest forefoot in this shortlist at 94.6 mm, after the LeBron Witness 9, with a toe box a little above average height (24.3 mm) | 72.4 mm | No | $190 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| Air Jordan 40 The tallest toe box in this shortlist at 27.3 mm — worth knowing if the pressure is on top of your toes rather than the sides | 71.9 mm | No | $205 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| adidas Anthony Edwards 2 The only adidas in the lab’s wide-toe-box list; adidas’s US site now sells the Anthony Edwards 3, which RunRepeat has not measured | 71.6 mm | No | $130 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
| Nike LeBron Witness 9 The widest forefoot in this shortlist at 95.8 mm, with a tall 25.9 mm toe box | 71.0 mm | No | $105 | Search AmazonPaid link. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you; commissions never influence a score, a ranking or the seal. Price and availability change, so check the listing. |
Toe-box widths and heights: RunRepeat’s lab. New Balance width options and prices: New Balance’s product pages, read 7 October 2026. Other prices: the price RunRepeat prints on each shoe’s review, read 7 October 2026.
Height is the number nobody quotes, and it matters here
Toe-box height is measured in the same lab tests and almost never appears in a buying guide, which is a shame, because a lot of what people call a narrow shoe is really a shallow one. Pressure across the top of the toes, a bruised nail on the second toe, a shoe that feels tight even in a size up — those are depth problems, not width problems.
In the shortlist the range is wide: 20.3 mm in the Luka 77 against 27.3 mm in the Air Jordan 40, a 7 mm difference, three times the 2.3 mm width spread of RunRepeat’s seven wide-toe-box picks. If your symptoms are on top of your toes rather than at the sides, the Jordan 40 and the LeBron Witness 9 are the two in the shortlist to look at, and going wider will not help you.
Across the 50 basketball shoes the lab has measured with its current method (all listed further down), toe-box height runs from 19.3 mm (PUMA All Pro Nitro 2) to 29.1 mm (Nike G.T. Cut 4), and it does not travel with width: the G.T. Cut 4, the tallest, is one of the seven narrowest at the big toe (65.6 mm), and the Luka 77, the widest, has one of the lowest toe boxes (20.3 mm).
Fitting a wide foot into a basketball shoe
- Take the insole out and stand on it. If your forefoot hangs over the edges, the shoe is narrower than your foot. This is the cheapest and most reliable test there is, it takes ten seconds, and it works in a shop.
- Do not size up to buy width. A longer shoe puts its widest point behind the widest part of your foot, and in a sport built on stopping and cutting, extra length in front of your toes is exactly what you do not want.
- Try shoes after playing, not before. Feet swell under load. A shoe fitted on a fresh foot at 11am can be a clamp in the fourth quarter.
- Skip an eyelet over the forefoot. If the shoe fits the heel but bites across the top of the midfoot, lacing through the second eyelet instead of the first relieves that band and keeps the heel locked. It is free and it often does more than the next model up.
- Knit and mesh uppers give; fused and plated ones do not. A shoe with structural overlays across the forefoot will feel the same on day 60 as on day one. A knit upper will not stretch enough to fix a real width mismatch, but it will accommodate a small one.
- Judge it the next morning. Numbness, hot spots between the toes and forefoot ache often turn up after the session rather than during it. A second morning worse than the first means the shoe is too narrow, and more hours will not break it in.
When a wider shoe is not the answer
- You have a bunion that is pressing on the second toe. Width buys room at the sides; it does not change the direction the big toe is pointing. Room helps the symptoms and changes nothing about the deformity. Our bunion page covers what actually helps.
- You wear custom orthotics. A device changes the fit of whatever it goes into, and basketball shoes are usually tight on volume to begin with. Fit the shoe with the orthotic in and the stock insole out, and expect the answer to be a different size from the one you would buy without it.
- The pain is in the heel. Then this is not the page — drop, heel structure and how much you are playing matter, and width will not touch it. Start with basketball shoes for plantar fasciitis.
- The numbness has become constant. Intermittent forefoot burning during play is a fitting problem worth solving with a shoe. Numbness that is there when you are sitting still is worth having looked at, whatever shoe you are in.
Every basketball shoe on the lab’s current method, by room at the big toe
RunRepeat has measured 50 basketball shoes with its current gel-mould method, and this is all of them, sorted from the most room at the big toe to the least (read 7 October 2026). The three figures are the inside width at the big toe, the inside width at the widest part of the forefoot (the ball of the foot), and the toe box’s height, all in millimetres; RunRepeat’s basketball averages are 69.2, 92.6 and 23.4. All were taken in a men’s US 9 in standard width; the two shoes listed only in RunRepeat’s women’s catalog were tested in a women’s 10.5, which is the same size. None was measured by us, and the caveat above still applies: one pair of each, so shoes a few tenths of a millimetre apart are a tie.
| Shoe | Big toe | Forefoot | Height |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Luka 77 | 73.3 | 92.5 | 20.3 |
| Air Jordan XXXIX | 72.6 | 94.7 | 24.0 |
| Nike G.T. Cut Academy | 72.5 | 92.7 | 24.9 |
| Nike Air Max Impact 4 | 72.4 | 92.4 | 21.3 |
| Nike G.T. Hustle 3 | 72.4 | 94.6 | 24.3 |
| Nike LeBron Witness 8 | 72.4 | 92.3 | 20.1 |
| New Balance Fresh Foam BB v2 | 72.3 | 92.3 | 25.2 |
| Air Jordan 40 | 71.9 | 93.4 | 27.3 |
| adidas Anthony Edwards 2 | 71.6 | 92.1 | 25.2 |
| New Balance TWO WXY V5 | 71.2 | 93.7 | 26.8 |
| New Balance Hesi Low v2 | 71.0 | 89.3 | 24.9 |
| Nike LeBron Witness 9 | 71.0 | 95.8 | 25.9 |
| adidas Dame 9 | 71.0 | 95.4 | 22.7 |
| adidas Dame X | 70.8 | 93.6 | 24.5 |
| Jordan Luka 4 | 70.6 | 93.6 | 20.8 |
| New Balance Kawhi IV | 70.6 | 89.9 | 23.0 |
| Nike G.T. Cut 3 | 70.6 | 94.3 | 23.5 |
| Nike Ja 2 | 70.5 | 90.7 | 27.4 |
| Jordan Luka 3 | 70.4 | 96.6 | 22.4 |
| Nike Sabrina 2 | 70.4 | 92.3 | 24.9 |
| Jordan One Take 5 | 70.1 | 91.8 | 22.4 |
| Jordan Tatum 4 | 70.1 | 90.8 | 25.0 |
| Nike Book 1 | 69.9 | 92.2 | 21.1 |
| Nike LeBron 23 | 69.9 | 96.2 | 20.8 |
| adidas D.O.N. Issue 7 | 69.8 | 94.0 | 23.5 |
| Nike Sabrina 3 (women’s list only) | 69.7 | 91.7 | 23.0 |
| Nike Book 2 | 69.4 | 91.7 | 20.4 |
| Nike G.T. Cut 3 Turbo | 69.4 | 90.7 | 24.0 |
| Nike G.T. Future | 69.2 | 95.2 | 20.7 |
| Nike Giannis Freak 7 | 69.0 | 91.2 | 24.2 |
| Nike Giannis Immortality 4 | 69.0 | 91.6 | 22.1 |
| PUMA All Pro Nitro | 68.7 | 92.7 | 23.7 |
| Nike G.T. Jump 2 | 68.4 | 92.6 | 22.6 |
| New Balance Fresh Foam BB v3 | 68.3 | 91.0 | 20.9 |
| Nike KD 18 | 68.1 | 91.7 | 28.2 |
| Nike A’One (women’s list only) | 67.8 | 93.2 | 19.8 |
| Nike Cosmic Unity 3 | 67.8 | 93.6 | 25.4 |
| PUMA All Pro Nitro 2 | 67.8 | 92.2 | 19.3 |
| adidas Anthony Edwards 1 Low | 67.6 | 99.3 | 23.1 |
| adidas D.O.N. Issue #6 | 67.4 | 94.3 | 21.7 |
| Nike LeBron 22 | 67.2 | 91.4 | 22.1 |
| Reebok Question Mid | 67.2 | 94.1 | 22.1 |
| Nike Precision 7 | 67.1 | 90.4 | 21.5 |
| Nike G.T. Cut 4 | 65.6 | 91.3 | 29.1 |
| adidas Harden Volume 10 | 65.5 | 89.4 | 20.9 |
| Nike KD 17 | 65.3 | 91.1 | 23.5 |
| adidas Harden Vol. 9 | 65.3 | 90.9 | 24.2 |
| Jordan Zion 3 | 64.8 | 88.9 | 24.8 |
| Jordan Tatum 2 | 64.2 | 92.1 | 23.5 |
| Jordan Zion 4 | 62.7 | 91.4 | 27.4 |
Three things stand out. The spread is 10.6 mm, from the Jordan Luka 77 at 73.3 to the Jordan Zion 4 at 62.7, so even in standard width the model matters: the seven narrowest, 62.7 to 65.6 mm, sit at least 1.5 mm below every other shoe and are the ones to skip with a wide forefoot. The New Balance shoes in this table, the Fresh Foam BB v2 (72.3), TWO WXY V5 (71.2), Hesi Low v2 (71.0), Kawhi IV (70.6) and Fresh Foam BB v3 (68.3), are no longer sold on New Balance’s US site, and the four it sells in 2E today have not been measured by RunRepeat. And four of the seven roomiest at the big toe are not among the seven picks in RunRepeat’s own guide to wide-toe-box basketball shoes (dated 13 September 2026), and the guide does not say why. Two are older versions of shoes it does pick (the Air Jordan XXXIX and LeBron Witness 8), the Fresh Foam BB v2 is no longer on New Balance’s US site, and RunRepeat’s own review of the Air Max Impact 4 lists “Not for wide-footers” as a con.
Questions I get asked
Do basketball shoes come in wide widths?
Almost none do. Nike’s own basketball shop offers no width filter at all, and when we read the US sites of 13 basketball brands on 7 October 2026, New Balance was the only one selling a performance basketball shoe in a wide width: the P400, P400 Low, P350 and Maxey V1, in Wide (2E). Every other performance basketball shoe marketed as “wide” is a roomy shoe in standard width.
Can I just wear running shoes for basketball instead?
Some will be roomier, and several running brands sell a 4E, which is a real advantage. But a running shoe is built for straight-line loading and has a softer, taller, less laterally supported platform, so you would be trading a fit problem for a stability one on the cuts. For pick-up once a week many people get away with it. For anything competitive I would not.
Are high-tops better for wide feet?
Height at the ankle has nothing to do with width at the forefoot; the two get conflated because both feel like “more shoe”. Choose the cut on how your ankle feels, and the forefoot on the numbers above.
Will a wide basketball shoe stretch out?
A knit upper gives a little; a fused or plated forefoot does not give at all. Neither will rescue a shoe that is genuinely narrower than your foot, and playing in it while you wait is how blisters and bruised nails happen.
Have you tested any of these?
No. We have not benched a basketball shoe at all, which is stated at the top of this page. The measurements here are RunRepeat’s, the wide-size availability is from the brands’ own sites, plus WearTesters where named, and each is named where it is used. When we do test in this category, this page gets replaced with our own numbers and the change is logged.
Does New Balance make wide basketball shoes?
Yes, and it is the only brand we found that sells a performance basketball shoe in a wide width. On New Balance’s US site on 7 October 2026, the P400 ($129.99), P400 Low ($119.99), P350 ($109.99) and Maxey V1 ($129.99) came in Standard (D) or Wide (2E); the P400 and P400 Low not in every colourway. None came in X-Wide (4E), and its older Kawhi, TWO WXY, Hesi Low and Fresh Foam BB are no longer sold on its US site.
Does Nike make wide basketball shoes?
Not on its US site. Nike’s basketball listings have no width filter, and its Wide and Extra Wide listings hold running, football, golf and training shoes but no basketball shoe (7 October 2026). The roomiest Nike and Jordan shoes on the lab’s current method are the Jordan Luka 77 (73.3 mm at the big toe), the Air Jordan XXXIX (72.6) and the Nike G.T. Cut Academy (72.5), all in standard width.
Are there wide basketball shoes for women?
Not as women’s shoes. New Balance’s basketball shoes are unisex, sized from a women’s 5.5, and labelled in men’s letters: on New Balance’s own chart a D is a men’s standard but a women’s wide, and a 2E is a women’s extra-wide, so a woman who wears a wide can start in the Standard (D). We did not check how far down the size run the Wide (2E) goes. No brand we read sells a women’s performance basketball shoe in a wide.
Are there wide basketball shoes for kids?
Barely. The only one we found is New Balance’s B480 Lace in little kids’ sizes 10.5 to 3, in Standard (M) or Wide (W), a retro shoe New Balance calls an “authentic kids’ basketball shoe”. The kids’ P400 Low and P350 listings we found come in Standard (M) only, and Nike’s kids’ basketball listing has no width filter.
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