NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA issued flopping
warnings to Minnesota's JJ Barea and Cleveland's Donald Sloan on Monday, the
first two under a new policy designed to end the act.
Barea threw his upper body
backward after contact while defending Sacramento's Jimmer Fredette in the
fourth quarter on Friday. Sloan tumbled wildly to the court a few feet from
contact after a pick set against him by Chicago's Nazr Mohammed on Friday.
"The extra on the end
kind of made it bad," Sloan said before the Cavs' game against the
Clippers in Los Angeles. "To be one of the first ones (warned) kind of
(stinks)."
The NBA announced a new
policy in preseason to stop the act of players dramatically overselling contact
in hopes of tricking referees into calling fouls. League officials review plays
and inform players if something they did falls under the league's definition of
a flop, which is "any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause
the referees to call a foul on another player."
"It's just a judgment
call," Sloan said. "I'm sure they'll crack down on it."
The second offense comes
with a $5,000 fine, followed by $10,000 for a third, $15,000 for a fourth and
$30,000 for a fifth. Additional flops after that could lead to a suspension.
Barea said before the
Timberwolves' game in Brooklyn that he hadn't heard yet from the league, but he
drew two charging fouls in the game and assumed he was flagged for one of
those. His coach, Rick Adelman, is concerned about the policy and its
enforcement, wondering if the 6-foot Puerto Rican guard was targeted for his
get-under-your-skin reputation.
"I've said it before,
I think it's something that they can certainly look at, but I don't know how
anybody, you know, a thousand miles away on TV can tell if somebody gets hit or
not hit. I think anybody here, if somebody does that to you, you're going to
flinch," Adelman said, swinging his arm upward toward reporters.
"And he got hit. The
play that they're talking about, the guy hit him in the face and he got called
for a foul. I don't understand how he can get a warning foul."
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