NBA Conference Finals 2007

[Bloodline666]

I'd also like to point out that there's gonna be flopping in the Finals, regardless of who the two teams that play there are. The Cavs' most notorious flopper is Anderson Varejao. I believe Kirilenko is the Jazz's top flopper. I shouldn't even need to tell you who the Spurs' top flopper is. And if, next season, they DO make flopping punishable by a technical foul call, I can tell you right now that Rasheed Wallace is gonna start flopping next season just to try and be the all-time leader in technical fouls.

I think the recent spike in international players coming to the league would account for most of the flopping going on in the NBA. Most of those players grew up in, or played professionally in, countries where "football" (soccer to us Americans) is the most prevailant sport. It should be noted that flopping is EXTREMELY prevailant in soccer. My best guess is, most of these international players saw their soccer heroes flop so much that they thought, "this is really cool! What would happen if we did this in the NBA? Would we get the foul call in our favor?" I'm fairly certain some of these international players even learned how to flop by playing soccer. Sure enough, look what happened? These same players are now taking what they learned from watching (or playing) soccer, and applying it to the NBA. As of right now, soccer refs and FIFA are actively trying to crack down on flopping in that sport by issuing yellow cards to any player caught flopping. While FIFA and FIBA have rules against flopping, it's still legal and part of the game in the NBA. I would have to say the exact opposite of flopping in the NBA would be Hack-a-Shaq (or rather, Hack-a-[insert bad free throw shooter's name here])