Stern: "Flopping fines are not enough"

[ExodusNirvana]

MIAMI -- With players, coaches and fans continuing to complain about the widespread practice of flopping, NBA commissioner David Stern said the league needs to expand its anti-flopping rules.

The issue will be taken up at the NBA's competition committee meeting scheduled for next week in San Antonio.

This season, the league instituted a system that retroactively fined players for flopping after video review. But only five players were fined $5,000 in the regular season and seven more have been fined that amount in the playoffs.

Stern hinted at increasing the penalty for those found guilty of flopping.

"It isn't enough, it isn't enough," Stern said in his annual pre-NBA Finals news conference. "You're not going to cause somebody to stop it for $5,000 when the average player's salary is $5.5 million. And anyone who thought that was going to happen was allowing hope to prevail over reason. I mean these Miami cornballs spend more on a night out in South Beach."

As part of the policy, a player could be fined up to $30,000 for five violations and a suspension on the sixth. A total of 19 players were given warnings during the season, and no player was assessed more than a $5,000 fine. Stern said this was part of "gently" phasing in the system.

"We could end it immediately if we decided to suspend players," Stern said. "But that might be a little Draconian at the moment. People like Chris Paul would be out of a job and our leagues MVP would lose a key component of his repertoire"

Stern said a year into the program, the league has the information to evaluate what increasing the frequency and depth of the penalties would do. But he wasn't sure how much stricter the policy could be for next season.

"I think we have the data. I don't know if we have the stomach," Stern said. "And we'll have to wait and see what happens with the competition committee and the board [of governors]."

In addition to flopping, Stern said the committee will review the referees' replay procedure. That could include moving all replay decisions to a centralized location where an off-site official would make a quicker and more informed ruling. Such a system is currently in place in the NHL.

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[SuburbanPimp]

$5,000 ain't shyt, Especially when they fined Roy Hibbert $75,000 for saying "No Homo"

This flopping shyt is fukkin with the integrity of the game....

I go to my son's AAU games and now you see kids trying to flop and shyt too..

 

[Arcavian]

I see what you did there

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

Make them technical fouls on the most obvious ones. There's no way someone like lil Nate Robinson is making Bron fall 10 feet back. Make a point system. After 5 points, one game suspension. Each point after, another game.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

That Chris Paul Ether.

 

[beenz]

$5,000 ain't shyt, Especially when they fined Roy Hibbert $75,000 for saying "No Homo"

This flopping shyt is fukkin with the integrity of the game....


I go to my son's AAU games and now you see kids trying to flop and shyt too..

 

[IGSaint12]

I honestly think it should be a fine for the first offense and a game suspension for the second offense.

And I also think he was talking about lebron

He probably thinks about the superstars like kobe and jordan he's seen in the past and looks at lebron flopping around like an idiot and goes

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

....I mean these Miami cornballs spend more on a night out in South Beach."

...right...sure he said that

 

[PortCityProphet]

Yea cuz only 19 players have flopped in a 82 game season he don't care bout flopping he should stop frontin

 

[AVXL]

@ bits of Coli trolling added into the real quote & nikkaz believing it b/c they see a link. Idiots

They should suspend you for a game each time your deemed to have flopped. Quick, easy & simple solution.

 

[LastEmperor2k2]

It really isn't though.

I said it in the other thread, you want to get rid of that euro soccer flopping shyt, immediate ejection if you flop.

Dudes will stop

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Make them technical fouls on the most obvious ones. There's no way someone like lil Nate Robinson is making Bron fall 10 feet back. Make a point system. After 5 points, one game suspension. Each point after, another game.

Two shots and the ball for flopping. It'll get sorted out in the locker room *real* quick.

 

[ThaGlow]

Stern with that etherious name drop. CP3 is mad.

 

[GoldenGlove]

$5,000 ain't shyt, Especially when they fined Roy Hibbert $75,000 for saying "No Homo"

This flopping shyt is fukkin with the integrity of the game....

I go to my son's AAU games and now you see kids trying to flop and shyt too..

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

If a referee can't spot a flop when it happens then just let it go man