{"id":2820,"date":"2012-09-28T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2012-09-28T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:07:16","slug":"nba-cracks-down-on-floppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2012\/09\/28\/nba-cracks-down-on-floppers\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cracks down On Floppers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NBA is finally stepping up and going against the floppers. This is music to my ears. For years, I have been leading the “fight the flop” campaign and now the NBA has joined the rest of the people that hate it.<\/p>\n

ELIZABETH, N.J. — The NBA is about to act in hopes of stopping the floppers.<\/p>\n

Spokesman Tim Frank said Thursday the league 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.<\/p>\n

Frank said the competition committee met two weeks ago and discussed plans that would go in place this season. Commissioner David Stern believes too many players are deceiving referees by flopping and has been seeking a way to properly penalize them.<\/p>\n

The procedures will likely involve a postgame review of the play by the league office, rather than an official calling an infraction during the game, Frank said. Players would likely be fined if the league determined they flopped.<\/p>\n

The proposed plan mirrors a “postgame analysis” option Stern discussed after the competition committee met in June. The league already retroactively reviews flagrant fouls to determine if they need to be upgraded or downgraded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is great. Although I feel the players should be suspended 20 games for a flop, a stiff fine will be a good start. A few months back we did a “Biggest NBA Flopper Poll”<\/a> so we basically already have the list of who the NBA can start watching first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NBA is finally stepping up and going against the floppers. This is music to my ears. For years, I have been leading the “fight the flop” campaign and now the NBA has joined the rest of the people that hate it. ELIZABETH, N.J. — The NBA is about to act in hopes of stopping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[515,959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}