Chinese company ANTA pretty much hit the nail on the head with the KT 1 (really, you can read the performance review here). At $100 Klay’s first shoe was an excellent budget option. Now, the Internets are showing off the ANTA KT 2.
While the KT 2 doesn’t showcase a drastic change in design, it may have fixed our major concern with the 1: cushion. There are no tech specs currently available but we’re dying to know if the tooling has changed. The midsole has gotten a bit more aggressive and the materials have been altered slightly; the heel is now full vented mesh and the forefoot is entirely a plastic-like material that keeps costs low and durability high. The hooked ANTA logo at the heel is also much more interesting.
ANTA has five colorways of the KT 2 ready but there is no word yet on when they will release or if they will come Stateside. I’m sure ANTA remembers that all the pairs of the KT 1 it brought to the U.S. sold out. As soon as we have more information on release, pricing, and tech specs, you’ll have it.
Be sure to let us know what you think about the latest Klay Thompson model in the comments below. Are you as excited as we are?
It’s definitely an upgrade from the first KT.
Looks alright, but I’m not really a fan of the plastic fuse-like stuff on the forefoot. If its like Nike fuse, then it could possibly crease awkwardly and pinch your foot a bit; happens to me on some Nike models. Rest of it looks ok, though. Like Noah said, I’m interested if they put any cushion on this thing because that seems to be the major thing it lacked.
I like the home and Lightning colorways.
The lightning colorway looks nice!
Nice to know the KT1 sold out, it only means a lot of people appreciate the $100 shoe from Anta, as mentioned already, the cushion should be upgraded,
What’s the best cushion tech that ever came out from Anta releases? Does anyone know?
To your last question: Bryan (Duke4005) may know better but a lot of the ANTA stuff has never come to the States until recently. It also doesn’t help us that most tech info on ANTA kicks is in Chinese…
Anta A-Jelly tech
These are definitely dope…the first ones were pretty nice in terms of performance, these are likely the same
Looks pretty decent imo. One thing that I did notice from the KT 2 was the increased tongue length. That was the one thing from the KT 1 that was kinda annoying for me, but besides that, everything was what you paid for. The black colorway looks dope, and I’m interested to see him rocking more PE’s this year, than just the simple Home and Away colorways.
I agree on both counts. I really hope NATA steps up Klay’s PE game because I think the shoe looks dope — don’t really see why it gets so much hate. As if all Nike and Jordan models look completely unique…
i don’t know how the kt1s were but these kt2s are pretty comfortable.