D-League To Call Technical Fouls For Flops

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10485247/nba-d-league-call-technical-fouls-flops

NEW YORK -- The NBA Development League will begin assessing technical fouls for flops, a new rule that goes further than the NBA one by punishing the act during a game.

The NBA began to issue punishments last season for flopping, the art of exaggerating contact to deceive referees into calling a foul, but only retroactively. If a player is determined to have flopped after a postgame review, he is given a warning for the first offense and a $5,000 fine for the second.

Under the NBA D-League system that begins Thursday and runs through the end of the season, referees will note when they believe a flop occurred, then confirm it via instant replay at the next timeout or quarter break. If confirmed, the free throw will be shot at that time.

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[Strenuus]

 

[jlprk]

Videos from the D-League Slam Dunk Contest

http://nba.si.com/2014/02/16/d-league-dunk-contest-tony-mitchell/

 

[dviss1]

Videos from the D-League Slam Dunk Contest

http://nba.si.com/2014/02/16/d-league-dunk-contest-tony-mitchell/

Not sure what this has to do with Techs being called for flops...

 

[jlprk]

Not worth its own thread, so I chose between the buried corpse of the Slam Dunk thread, or the newly-rotting, lying there on the ground corpse of your thread. Figured it might bring yours back to life like a zombie.

 

[Strenuus]

Not worth its own thread, so I chose between the buried corpse of the Slam Dunk thread, or the newly-rotting, lying there on the ground corpse of your thread. Figured it might bring yours back to life like a zombie.

*twitches*