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Safety warning: Backboards are falling off these portable basketball poles, prompting recall – SILive.com
More than 14,000 Spalding basketball hoops have been recalled after backboards have fallen off, hitting players. (Courtesy of the Consumer Product Safety Commission)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 13,000 portable basketball hoops have been recalled after backboards have fallen off, causing injury to players.
Russell Brands, the manufacturer of Spalding Momentous EZ Portable Basketball Goals, has voluntarily recalled the hoops, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced.
The basketball hoops feature a 50- or 54-inch clear backboard with a visible H-frame, providing support behind the backboard, or a 54-inch acrylic clear backboard with aluminum trim, but no H-frame. All backboard styles are attached to a black metal pole with a black metal arm.
They were sold online at Spalding.com and Amazon.com from May 2021 through April 2022 for between $400 and $600.
“Weld failures’’ have caused backboards to separate from the pole, with injuries resulting from the backboard hitting a consumer on the shoulder/upper torso and one hitting a consumer on the head, the CPSC said.
“Spalding” is printed on the front of the black base and “6E” is molded on the back. The numbers 1010, 1011 or 1012 are printed to the right of the caution statement on the front of the backboard.
Consumers should immediately stop using the portable basketball goals and contact Spalding to arrange for a technician to remove the original arm and install a new arm on the goal system. Spalding is contacting all known purchasers, the announcement said.
Spalding can be reached at 800-558-5234 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday, on Friday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or online.
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