The NBA’s lame-duck commissioner, David Stern, acknowledged last June that the league needed to do a better job of discouraging players from flopping, otherwise known as the effort to fool referees into making a call on their behalf.
Six months later, the question remains: When is the league going to start?
“Flopping,” acknowledged Suns first-year head coach Jeff Hornacek, “is off the charts.”
He’s not alone in thinking that; you’d be hard-pressed to find a player or coach who doesn’t believe the tactic is more prevalent than ever. This, after the NBA announced before last season that it would review any incidents in which a player appeared to feign or exaggerate contact in order to draw a foul. After one warning, it would impose a $5,000 fine for each subsequent flop. The league upped the ante when the playoffs started last spring, announcing that flops would draw an immediate $5,000 fine.
In all, the NBA said it confirmed 24 violations by 19 different players on 13 different teams during the 2012-13 regular season. Since it required being caught twice to merit a ...
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Flopping in the NBA: An Epidemic That Shows No Signs of Improvement
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