Quick Answer: Dick’s Sporting Goods actually stocks padel rackets in 2026 — a real Babolat, Wilson, and Adidas lineup spanning roughly $80 to $340, confirmed directly against dickssportinggoods.com’s own product pages. That puts it well ahead of Decathlon, which carries zero padel products on its US site. The gap: Nox and Bullpadel, two of padel’s founding brands, don’t turn up in Dick’s padel-racket search results, so brand-loyal shoppers may still end up on Amazon anyway.
Searching “padel racket Dick’s Sporting Goods” used to be a dead end for most racket sports gear at big-box chains — padel is new enough in the US that inventory has been inconsistent store to store and site to site. That’s changed. This guide confirms exactly what’s listed, what it costs, and where the selection still falls short of a padel-specialist retailer.
What’s actually stocked
A direct search of dickssportinggoods.com’s padel category pages turns up three padel-specific racket brands:
- Babolat — now the deepest lineup by far at eight models: Contact, Counter Origin, Air Vertuo, Women’s Dyna Spirit, Air Veron, 2025 Air Viper, Technical Viper, and Air Viper 2.6.
- Wilson — Blade Team v2, Blade Elite v2, and Blade LS V3, plus the entry-level Optix V1 and newer Optix V2 Lite/Power variants.
- Adidas — the Metalbone Carbon 2026, a lower-face-count variant of Adidas’s flagship diamond racket.
Nox and Bullpadel — two of the sport’s founding, padel-only brands, and the top overall picks in our own best padel racket testing — still do not appear in Dick’s padel-racket search results as of October 2026. If either brand matters to you specifically, Amazon remains the more complete option.
Verified October 2026: Dick’s has quietly grown its Babolat selection from 5 to 8 models since this guide first published in September, adding the entry-level Contact ($80) and Counter Origin ($120) and the mid-tier Air Veron ($240, covered in full in our dedicated Babolat Air Veron review) — all confirmed directly against dickssportinggoods.com’s current product pages. Wilson’s lineup has grown too, with Optix V2 Lite/Power and the Blade LS V3 joining the original three models. The Adidas Metalbone Carbon 2026 is unchanged at $305.
By the numbers
- Dick’s lists the Babolat Technical Viper at $320 — inside the $270-$390 list-to-discount range this site’s own Technical Viper review already established from Babolat’s own US store, just at the higher end of it.
- The Babolat Air Vertuo lists at $180 at Dick’s, slightly below the ~$200 price point this site’s best Babolat padel racket guide already cites elsewhere — a real, if modest, discount for the same racket.
- The Adidas Metalbone Carbon 2026 runs $305 — a genuinely different racket from the $455 flagship Metalbone reviewed on this site: a Carbon Aluminized 6K face instead of the flagship’s stiffer 16K weave, per manufacturer spec sheets, not just a discount on the same frame.
Babolat lineup at Dick’s
| Racket | Best for | Shape | Price at Dick's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babolat Contact | Cheapest entry racket | Beginner | $80 |
| Babolat Counter Origin | Hybrid beginner | Hybrid | $120 |
| Babolat Air Vertuo | Lightweight all-rounder | Teardrop | $180 |
| Babolat Women's Dyna Spirit | Women's fit, all-rounder | Teardrop | $200 |
| Babolat Air Veron | Hybrid all-rounder | Hybrid | $240 |
| Babolat 2025 Air Viper | Prior-gen flagship, on sale | Diamond | $259 (from $350) |
| Babolat Technical Viper | Current flagship attacker | Diamond | $320 |
| Babolat Air Viper 2.6 | Newest Viper generation | Diamond | $340 |
Babolat Technical Viper
- Same 370g, 3K-carbon, X-EVA-core flagship this site reviewed directly against Babolat's own US product page — Dick's price sits above the ~$270-300 discount range found elsewhere, but with same-day pickup instead of shipping.
- Diamond shape and head-heavy balance built for advanced attackers, not a first racket — see our full Babolat Technical Viper review for who it actually fits.
Comparing in-store pickup against a five-day Amazon shipping window before a weekend tournament — try Amazon Prime free for 30 days and get free two-day delivery on whichever racket actually wins your side-by-side.
Wilson and Adidas at Dick’s
Wilson Blade Team v2
- Matches the Blade Team's specs and price point already established in our best Wilson padel racket guide — fiberglass-weave face, low-density EVA core, built for confidence-building contact rather than raw power.
- Dick's also lists the step-up Blade Elite v2 and Blade LS V3, plus the entry-level Optix V1 ($109) and newer Optix V2 Lite/Power variants, for players who want to compare tiers in one store.
Adidas Metalbone Carbon 2026
- Carbon Aluminized 6K face and Soft Performance EVA core — a real step down in face stiffness from the 16K flagship Metalbone Ale Galán actually plays, not the same racket at a discount.
- A reasonable middle ground if the $455 flagship's price is the only thing stopping you from trying a diamond-shaped Adidas frame.
Which one should you buy?
- Want to test grip and swing weight before buying: Dick’s in-store pickup lets you handle a Babolat, Wilson, or Adidas frame same-day — something no online-only retailer offers.
- Want Nox or Bullpadel specifically: skip straight to Amazon; neither brand currently surfaces in Dick’s padel-racket search results.
- Want the widest Babolat selection in one place: Dick’s actually beats a single-brand padel shop here, with eight Babolat models spanning $80-$340 in one storefront, up from five in September.
For the full field beyond these three brands, our best padel racket pillar ranks every current option across Nox, Bullpadel, Babolat, Head, Adidas, and Wilson.
The bottom line
Dick’s Sporting Goods has quietly built a real padel racket section — Babolat, Wilson, and Adidas in stock with same-day pickup, a meaningful step up from the near-total absence of padel gear at most other US big-box sporting goods chains. That selection has only gotten deeper since this guide first published, with Babolat’s lineup growing from five models to eight. The gap is brand breadth: Nox and Bullpadel, this site’s top overall picks, still aren’t there, so brand-loyal shoppers will still end up comparing prices on Amazon regardless. Curious how a mass retailer’s marketplace listings hold up instead of a dedicated sporting-goods chain’s own inventory? Our Walmart padel racket guide covers the real Nox, Wilson, and HEAD listings there — and the generic imports sitting right next to them. Target lands somewhere else again — no Nox or Bullpadel, but real HEAD and Wilson at steep discounts — covered in our Target padel racket guide.