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Over the last few seasons, "flopping" in the NBA has become an issue... and now, the league is taking measures to stop it.
ESPN.com reports that the NBA is finalizing procedures to deal with flopping -- the art of falling down when little or no contact was made in an effort to trick referees into calling a foul.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the competition committee met two weeks ago and discussed plans, which would result in fines to players who are determined to have flopped. However, the procedures are likely to be determined during a postgame review of the play by the league office, rather than an official calling an infraction during the game.
The league already retroactively reviews flagrant fouls to determine if they need to be upgraded or downgraded. This will be done the same for flopping.
"If you continue to do this, you may you have to suffer some consequences," Stern said about flopping during the NBA Finals. "What those exactly should be and what the progression is, is to be decided, because ... we just want to put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game, without coming down with a sledgehammer, but just doing it in a minimalist way to begin stamping it out. And I think there are ways we can do that and we'll have to wait and see exactly what we come up with."
ESPN.com reports that the NBA is finalizing procedures to deal with flopping -- the art of falling down when little or no contact was made in an effort to trick referees into calling a foul.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the competition committee met two weeks ago and discussed plans, which would result in fines to players who are determined to have flopped. However, the procedures are likely to be determined during a postgame review of the play by the league office, rather than an official calling an infraction during the game.
The league already retroactively reviews flagrant fouls to determine if they need to be upgraded or downgraded. This will be done the same for flopping.
"If you continue to do this, you may you have to suffer some consequences," Stern said about flopping during the NBA Finals. "What those exactly should be and what the progression is, is to be decided, because ... we just want to put a stake in the ground that says this is not something that we want to be part of our game, without coming down with a sledgehammer, but just doing it in a minimalist way to begin stamping it out. And I think there are ways we can do that and we'll have to wait and see exactly what we come up with."
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