Makers of exercise ball get sued by NBA’s Sacramento Kings

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You may have seen people exercising with those gigantic balls, awkwardly placed under their belly or butt. It was bound to cause some problem sometime. It turned out that a basketball player of NBA’s Sacramento Kings got injured with that ball.

In October 2009, Francisco Garcia broke his wrist during a workout routine on an exercise ball that exploded. Consequently, Garcia missed 57 games in 2009-10 and severely harmed his team. Kings. Apparently, the ball was advertised to be burst-resistant, but obviously it was not or the player may have been damn too big for that ball.

Now, the team (Kings) is trying to recoup some of its wasted money from that season by suing the makers of the exercise ball known as the Gymnic "Burst Resistant" Plus Stability Ball.

Francisco Garcia injured by ball

The lawsuit seeks $4 million from Italy-based manufacturer Ledraplastic, ball distributor M-F Athletic Company and Ball Dynamics International. That's how much the team says it paid Garcia during games he missed because of the injury.
Let’s see if the ball makers have balls to play ball with the lawyers.

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