It’s not just the flopping that the NBA is trying to squash. It’s not just the flopping that the NBA is trying to squash. ADVERTISING It’s Reggie Evans looking like he was zapped by about 10,000 volts of electricity when
It’s not just the flopping that the NBA is trying to squash.
It’s Reggie Evans looking like he was zapped by about 10,000 volts of electricity when Memphis guard Tony Allen’s arm hit him while Evans — yes, Evans — was setting a screen.
It’s Dwyane Wade trying to trick the referees by flinging his leg out on a jumpshot and falling to the ground when it makes contact with Celtics guard Mikael Pietrus.
It’s Danilo Gallinari “flailing” and holding his face in a soccer-style, “gross over-embellishment” — the league’s own words — after running into a screen by the Lakers’ Pau Gasol.
Those were some of the examples the NBA used in a video sent to players and teams describing what exactly will be subject to fines this season in the first year of a new program aimed at curbing the kind of deceptive, and sometimes downright laughable, acting jobs that made Ray Allen’s performance in “He Got Game” appear Oscar-worthy.
And the video didn’t even include the hilarious attempted double dupe from Oklahoma City’s James Harden and San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili on the same play in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals last season.
Floppers beware. The league is coming for you, and your money, this season.
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