Several shoe companies are constructing size 23 shoes for a Michigan teen.GOODRICH, Mich. — Finding comfortable shoes for a growing Michigan teen is no small feat.Eric Kilburn Jr. is a 14-year-old high school freshman from Goodrich who can no longer fit into his size 22 sneakers.
O’Neal, who wears a size 22 shoe, said he sympathized with Kilburn’s predicament, adding that his mother was unable to find proper-fitting shoes when the future NBA center was his age, the“We are so blown away by the support from not only our community, but the nation, maybe even global,” Kilburn’s mother, Rebecca Kilburn, wrote in a Facebook post.
Eric Kilburn Jr. received a letter from Reebok on Thursday, along with five pairs of size 22 shoes, his mother said. “Hoping these shoes we created for Shaq could be a fit and offer you relief,” the company wrote in a handwritten note. A friend of the family had found six pairs of size 22 basketball shoes in Arizona at Nike outlet about a year ago,