The NBA will be testing out a proposed in-game penalty for flopping during summer league contests, according to ESPN. A flop, which will be determined by in-game referees, will be penalized by awarding the opposing team a free throw. The player who commits the flop will be assessed a unsportsmanlike technical foul, which won’t count toward personal fouls or lead to an ejection.
The league’s Board of Governors will vote on July 11 regarding the implementation of the flopping penalty for next season, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets. The Board will also vote on a second coach’s challenge to be awarded if the first challenge is successful.
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Teams should be able to challenge calls until they get one wrong.
No takes too long.
Then set a time limit on all challenges. If the refs can’t figure things out within the allotted time, either stick with the original call or let them make a best guess.
The goal shouldn’t be to spend as long as possible getting every call right. It should be to spend a little bit of time so you can quickly overturn more clearly bad ones. Unfortunately, human nature being the way it is, folks would likely get upset with the latter over the former. The perfect being the enemy of the good.
That would literally kill the basketball game with so many breaks and reviews. Yawn
Yes and just as in baseball it should be decided at the NBA video headquarters.., they have all the views in front of them and are not swayed by the crowd or players or coaches present. Simpler, quicker, better.
Do you penalize reaves for trying to draw fouls? Kerr mentioned reaves was flopping…
Of course dubs gonna complain, after all that luxury tax paid for nothing…
4 championships has a nice ring to it. Sorry you missed the last decade.
He does benefit from having Lebron to help him refine his flopping technique.
So sick of flopping. It’s a joke when players hit the deck in the NBA harder than the NFL.
I like it
Purpose for laws/rules is to deter crimes not stop them
Just putting the thought in floppers heads that they could be called a foul on is half the battle
Nowadays I think you’re right but that was not the initial purpose of laws. The purpose of laws is to stop crime. Do the crime do the time. But with the current catch and release I think you’re more accurate today.
If Referees would call a foul as soon as an offensive player dips his shoulder & plows into a guy, flopping would be unnecessary. If the defensive player doesn’t fall down, the Referees will not call a foul. Michael made a living off Referees not calling offensive fouls!
You sound like the Dad yelling “Push off!!” at every AAU tournament
That was a different time, that’s because Michael was getting hand-checked consistently, he constantly was getting bumped, hit, and checked…before, during, and after shooting…You cannot even compare it to today’s game whatsoever..
If he did push off he had a reason for it, and it was to actually get a defender off his body.
It wasn’t like today, where alot of players are pushing off, and then stepping back just to create an extra couple feet of space. It’s often times a move alot of offensive players go to now when they’re incapable of creating space on their own, or as an easy way to create space for an “open look.” The way it is set-up now, it’s almost an unguardable move, because either you give them that extra space, or you come in late to contest and close in only to get a foul called for being in their “natural landing area” of their shot..
Given it was alot worse before they instituted what I call the “Harden Rule”…lol Where his entire offensive game was predicated around tricking the ref and initiating contact to get fouls called..
“Michael made a living off Referees not calling offensive fouls!”
That’s because they didn’t call defensive fouls as tightly, either. It was a more physical game back then. It’s not exclusive to Jordan.
Should of happened 5 or 10 years ago. Lebron had a nice career of it. Now bring the hand check rule back
Players couldn’t handle it if they brought back hand checking. They’re so accustomed to either initiating contact themselves to draw fouls, or not getting touched they wouldn’t know what to do if defenders were allowed to check and use their hands to disrupt without getting a foul called.
Should it “of”?
The whole review thing is a pain in the hole. Why not just have the guys at the replay centre have a representative fourth official at the game to call stuff in real time – the final say on out of bounds stuff, offensive fouls etc. Have the replay centre instantly checking foul calls etc, and they can override the initial call in a matter of seconds.
Unfortunately this needs to be something the league gets serious about as there are way too many games thrown by terrible calls.
They need multiple reviewers for basketball… 2 per game… With power to over rule decisions and reset the time and score…
Reviews might get it right but it just ruins the flow…
Yes just like baseball. The game refs stand there with the headphones on waiting for the call from the league office. Done.
There is plenty of proof that even with instant replay the referees still fix the games the way that they want to! Professional sports is fixed! The sooner you people learn this the better off that you will be!
If it was fixed, and outcomes were predetermined there was SEVERAL WAAAAAY more attention and headline grabbing match-ups that the NBA could have chosen rather than Denver and Miami as their finals match-up…
Please don’t tell me you’re one of those, “the NFL is scripted” people as well…lol
Our president might be a useless puppet, but not everything is some big conspiracy people.
I love the people who watch basketball AND think it’s fixed at the same time. What kind of thinking error is that?
Pro wrestling is extremely popular. I’ve never really understood it, but it seems like some people are very entertained by theatrics.
Especially remembering that had both those teams lost their conference finals, it would have been Lakers-Celtics, one of the “dream” matchups for television.
Flopping and complaining is this country’s culture. Keep up the good works
Starts with the kid in the grocery store in the candy aisle or toy aisle. They jump up and down and of course the parent yields. If they don’t it’s screaming all the way to the car.
Actually I think it starts with the parents when they ask little Johnny what they want for dinner at 5 years old. Mac and cheese or chicken nuggets and fries. Great building blocks for the body.
Oh Johnny doesn’t like vegetables he won’t eat them. WHAT ???
That’s democracy bud if you don’t like it you can leave.
Maybe the Celtics got tipped that the flopping rule was coming and that’s why they traded Marcus Smart. And this coming from a Celtics/smart fan.
The Kyle Lowry rule
So Harden’s basically useless now that he can’t flop I guess!
Two challenges is good, but you only get the second if you were right on the first.
Harden gets flopped against fool.
So the final year for Harden, Smart, CP3 and Lowry huh?
League should stop giving non-taxpaying teams the luxury tax money. All it does is give owners a reason to be cheapskates. Donate it to charity or something. Hate that rule. Reinsdoof cashes those checks every year.
Isn’t that money supposed to help those teams with the bottom line? So when they do spend to improve their teams and they don’t have big Market TV or merchandising and all the rest of that, this money makes up for it?
That’s what I thought the purpose was. So then they can spend as the big markets do and at the end of the day get some “cash backin.”
I have no affinity for flopping. But its become prevalent because NBA referees, by formula it seems, call fouls on defenders for any contact, regardless of who initiates it, and in who’s space it occurs; the only exceptions being when there is a demonstrable running over of the defender below the waist or an impactful push, shove or strike of the defender. This turns the traditional rules of the game on its head. No doubt the NBA is not bound by these traditional rules, and if they want to crack down on the few guys still trying to defend in this league, they can. But they can’t with credibility claim to be doing it in the name of those same rules.
What about actually calling TRAVELING and penalizing for it??