adidas Dame 5 "Black"

Colorway: Blac/Black/White · Style code: EE5425 · Original retail: $115 · Availability: Sold out at retail

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About the adidas Dame 5 "Black"

Damian Lillard's line with adidas has always been the affordable one. Where flagship signature basketball shoes drifted toward and past two hundred dollars through the 2010s, the Dame series stayed near the middle of the market, and reviewers consistently treated that price as the point rather than as a compromise. The fifth version, released early in 2019, was widely rated the best of the run: full-length Bounce cushioning, a herringbone pattern cut thick and spaced wide so dust had less to clog, and a plastic outrigger on the inner side keeping the foot over the platform through hard cuts. Bounce had sat under every Dame since the second. What the line has never had is a story attached to it: no origin myth, no retro programme, no manufactured scarcity. Black on black is the logical end of that: a shoe asked only whether it survives a season.

Written with AI from brand specs; facts checked against our catalog data on Sep 18, 2026.