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NBA Adopts Anti-Flopping Policy
The NBA officially adopted an anti-flopping policy Wednesday, announcing a new rule that will fine repeat offenders this season.
Any player who flops during a regular-season game will be subject to a series of penalties, beginning with a warning for first-time violators. After the warning, players will be fined in increments of $5,000 for each additional flop over the course of the season. The fines increase to $30,000 for a fifth offense. SN: Will Fines Fix Flopping? The NBA announced an escalating scale of fines for players caught flopping this season. Will that deter floppers? • Cast Your Vote! The NBA stated it would consider suspending any player who violates the anti-flopping rule more than five times in the regular season. The league said it will announce at a later date a separate set of penalties for flopping during the postseason. "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. "Accordingly, both the Board of Governors and the Competition Committee felt strongly that any player who the league determines, following video review, to have committed a flop should -- after a warning -- be given an automatic penalty." The league defined flopping as "any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause the referees to call a foul on another player" in an official release. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/84...s-fine-players |
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10-03-2012, 12:47 PM | #2 |
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Who?
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10-03-2012, 12:49 PM | #3 |
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Thats ****ing dumb.
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10-03-2012, 12:52 PM | #4 |
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There's no reason to fine them for flopping.
Just don't call the damn foul.
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10-03-2012, 12:58 PM | #5 |
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Oh good, I will start watching NBA games now, that was holding me back.
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10-03-2012, 12:59 PM | #6 |
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This is going to cripple the Heat big time.
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10-03-2012, 12:59 PM | #7 |
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This is bullshit. Flop is one of the cooler posters here. Why would they ban him from NBA games?
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Cool. Paul Pierce will have to find a new hobby now.
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Wouldn't it be easier just to ban the whole NBA?
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10-03-2012, 01:14 PM | #11 |
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What...and I'll have to miss great theatre like this! |
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10-03-2012, 01:19 PM | #13 |
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Flopping is worse in college. That's where that shit ****ing starts. The egregious flops you see in the NBA are just the result of a long practiced career where that shit is encouraged.
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10-03-2012, 01:20 PM | #14 |
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Sounds like in a court of law this would be some form of hear-say
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10-03-2012, 01:36 PM | #15 |
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$5k fines to guys who are paid tens of thousands each time they put on a jersey. Nice.
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