NBA May Start Punishing Floppers

Derek Fisher got 5 rings floppin, so did Dennis Rodman.

Divac is laughing.

Does this mean Manu Ginobilli will get cut from the Spurs, since flopping is 40 % of his game? haha j/p

First of all what is flopping? U have, nt really explained it. Second;This just another way for the greediness of the rich to keep more money in there pockets and to hurt the players pockets.

Flopping is falling down on purpose, sandbagging. Altering the course of the game to your favor by deceiving the official. In other words, acting like a fucking pussy bitch in order to get what you want.

John Stockton….The Utah Jazz never won the championship in any thing but flopping….

If you don't know what flopping is, Aaron, then you are not an Nba fan and why would you care? You want it s an excuse to promote class warfare and you have no idea what it means. Go back to MSNBC and wait for an explanation.

You dont know what Flopping is, but you criticize the league for using fines as a way to deter it…. ignorance and arrogance…

Flopping will only be punished if you're not a Miami Heat player.

So Fisher didn't hit any clutch shots and contribute with his behind the scenes leadership. Dennis Rodman didn't out-hustle every other player on the floor to get double digits rebounds every night. They just flopped? Where are the real NBA fans?

I agree its was extremely difficult to win in Utah and Stockton flopped a lot. Similar to D. Wade of the Heat.

Marx Aur. I am agreeing with you! Flopping to me is a part of the game! Its best for good refs to make no calls when a player flops as an advantage! No person can take a good charge without flopping!

On the flip side to flopping, those refs have to make those calls because its a different league a different world than the NBA in the early 90's for instance. Gilbert Arenas for instance had a gun in the locker room. The NBA can only allow so much trash-talk and physical play in today's league to make sure no-one gets killed outside of it.

I can tell you just start watching basketball or young! 90s basketball is weak! Real NBA is the 70s & 80s. No flopping back then and only teams with team play won championship. Guns in the locker room is a whole different kettle of fish! I dont think thats the norm for Guns in the Locker room!

James Harden is worse

Really? Why don't the referees just not call the fouls. If the flopping is blatant enough to receive a fine, why are the refs calling them? Are the refs so stupid they can't tell a flop from a foul?

could someone answer the @#$% question? I want to know too.

Poor Lebron won't have any free throws now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp20_I_m8i0

Here is the answer to flopping, since susan and tim dont want to give the answer, only put people down for not knowing what flopping is.. Gosh! ..In basketball, flopping is a pejorative term that refers to a defensive player intentionally falling backward to the floor upon physical contact with an offensive player. The hope is that it will appear to the official that the defensive player was knocked off of his feet by the offensive player's contact, thus prompting the official to call a charging foul against the offensive player. Flopping can also refer to the offensive player who simulates fouls against the defensive player.
The move is also sometimes called acting, as in "acting like he was fouled". Because it is inherently designed to deceive the official, flopping is generally considered to be unsportsmanlike. Nonetheless, it is widely practiced and even perfected by many great professional players.
Flopping effectively is not easy to do, primarily because drawing contact can sometimes result in the opposite effect—a foul called on the defensive player—when too much contact is drawn or if the player has not positioned himself perfectly. Additionally, even if no foul is called on either player, by falling to the floor, the flopping defensive player will have taken himself out of position to provide any further defensive opposition on the play, thus potentially allowing the offense to score easily. To consistently draw offensive fouls on opponents takes good body control and a great deal of practice. Players generally become better at flopping as their careers progress.
The National Basketball Association or NBA added a rule in 1997 to cut down on flopping near the basket, adding a 4-foot (1.22 meter) "dotted line area" around the center of the basket to help prevent flops. Such flops are charged as blocking fouls or no-calls.
Unlike the NBA, the penalty for "flopping" under FIBA rules is a technical foul. (FIBA rules state that would count as one of a player's five fouls (6 in a 48-minute game in some countries) towards being taken out of the game. In the NBA technical fouls for unsportsmanlike conduct count as one towards the two to ejection or seven to suspension.)
On May 28, 2008, the NBA announced that it would impose fines on players who show a clear case of flopping and suspensions for repeat offenders.[1] In 2012, Commissioner David Stern reiterated that flopping is a legitimate concern.[2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKh8Zq6zhRc

In the olden days, when I officiated (but not at the NBA level), kids would emulate their NBA stars by doing the same things that their role models did, including flopping. My fellow officials and I did what the NBA officials should do: we started calling blocking fouls on floppers..it worked like a charm, especially since you foul out with five fouls below the NBA level. The league is making this much more complicated than it should be.

If a player flops and the ref calls a foul the player called for the foul can say review that. Whoever loses review gets the foul. If a player flops twice in a game he gets ejected. That would clear that up really quick. Too bad soccer can't do something, it's even worse.

I think this is wrong. It sounds good, but then you need to take it to every other level too, including the NFL. How many times does a wide receiver get legitimately blocked by good defense, only to lay on the ground and throw his hands up in the air claiming pass interference, when it really wasn't? And sometimes, the officials make the mistake of throwing a flag when no interference did take place.

Im a huge spurs fan but I think you are right!! lmao!!

Paul Pierce is a master flopper.

Flopping is a part of the game. Try taking a legit charge without flopping & see what happens. It's up to the refs to decide what not to call. If you can decide what to punish, you can decide what not to call.