NBA considering idea of penalizing flopping

[eliteballer]

David Stern is determined to stop the floppers, even if it takes until the next morning.

The NBA commissioner believes too many players are deceiving referees into calling fouls by falling down, or flopping. So he and the league's newly reformed competition committee met Monday for a discussion about how it can be prevented.

One option, Stern said, is a "postgame analysis" in which a player could be penalized if it was determined he flopped. The league retroactively upgrades or downgrades flagrant fouls after review, and along those lines he said that perhaps a player could receive a message from New York saying: "Greetings from the league office. You have been assigned flopper status."

"No, I'm joking, but something like that," Stern said. "That sort of lets people know that it's not enough to say 'it's all part of the game.' "

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/80...lties-floppers

[Dictator]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/80...lties-floppers

[blacknapalm]

[chazzy]

[Kensta]

What happened to handing out fines to floppers like Stern said a couple years ago?

[code green]

didn't they say the same thing last year?

[dunksby]

The league retroactively upgrades or downgrades flagrant fouls after review, and along those lines he said that perhaps a player could receive a message from New York saying: "Greetings from the league office. You have been assigned flopper status."

[Apogee]

Been said before lets see if they actually follow through this time.

[josh99]

Well thats good I think they should also change the goal-tending call so that as soon as it touches the rim its live.

[Droid101]

Not far enough.

They need to allow any intentional foul taken to let the team fouled choose to take the free throws or take the ball out of bounds instead.

[v1ncelis]

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

didn't they say the same thing last year?

2 or 3 years ago...they had way more serious things to concentrate on last year.

[Cangri]

Harden about to go broke.

[The Choken One]

Won't affect Bron much...

but Wade/Harden/Blake/CP3...oh lawd. I know I'm forgetting other floppers...but these 4 are ridiculous.

[SCdac]

this ought to be interesting (not that the league hasn't threatened to penalize flopping before) - many of the worst floppers are the best player in the league.