With Eddy Curry Around, No Medicine Ball Is Safe

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Ball Suffers Career-Ending Injury
Published 10/14/2008 by Seth at Posting and Toasting
Before I head to class (Japanese! はじめまして, bitches!), I'd like to alert you to a severe blow to the Knicks' preseason depth chart. From The Daily News: (via SLAM): Poor Eddy Curry. He sat on the giant blue physio-ball during a break from Monday’s practice and the ball exploded. Eddy fell and scraped and his wrist but should be okay. The ball, which is used for stretching exercises, was pronounced dead at the scene. This is a tragedy. Ball, 2'6'' and 25 lbs., was a candidate, albeit a longshot, for the center position in ...

Tuesday Bullets
Published 10/14/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... free throw line than the field can be called, I just learned, a Dantley. Adrian Dantley did it many times. And how about Dwyane Wade in his famous ref-friendly 2006 NBA Finals? He must have had a lot of Dantleys, right? Wrong. Not a single one. These are stretches and exercises you can do with a big inflatable ball. What they don't tell you, unfortunately for Eddy Curry, is that really big guys can, apparently, cause those inflatable balls to explode. (Via Slam) Chris Herrington of the Memphis Flyer: ...