Sunday, November 18th, 2012

NBA warns 2 players for Flopping

Published on November 12, 2012 by Scott Shirley   ·   No Comments

Finally the NBA is doing something about flopping. I have been calling for this for the last couple of years. Over the last couple of years players have been flopping way too much. Basketball was turning into soccer. So the NBA is going to do something about it. Well even though the NBA season just started the league has already warned two players for their flopping antics.

Those players are Minnesota guard J.J. Barea and Cavs guard Donald Sloan. Check out the video of their flops below.

 The first time a player will receive a warning for flopping. After that a player will be fined in increments of $5,000 for each additional flop over the season. For example a fifth offense will result in a $30,000 fine.

The NBA even stated in could suspend a player if he violated the anti-flopping rule more than five times.

“Flops have no place in our game,” Stu Jackson, the NBA’s executive vice president of basketball operations, said in a written statement. “They either fool referees into calling undeserved fouls or fool fans into thinking the referees missed a foul call.

There is nothing more in basketball that bugs people more than players flopping. This happens when a player gets hit and they flop back like they have been really run into. Or sometime players act like they got hit, but they were really never touched. Basketball isn’t soccer.

ESPN/ABC announcer Jeff Van Gundy really hates flopping, he rants about flopping on every broadcast he is on.

Some say this is a smart play, to me this disrespects the game, if you want to flop around go become an actor. I wish the NBA would come up with a foul or fine for players that flop. This would hopefully stop it from happening in every game . Now that the NBA has put in these rules hopefully flopping will go away.

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