Splitter Fined $5,000 For Game 4 Flop

[LakerHater]

Anyone have a video of the incident

In the original thread

[Jenks]

This wasn't worth a fine though

[HI-FI]

there's never any consistency with the NBA.

[TampaDude]

This wasn't worth a fine though

^ this

[weebo]

Durant, Westbrook, Paul, Lebron, Wade, Harden, Manu, and many others flop all the time and not a word from league office. If they were objective with this "rule," the game would be a lot better to watch from a fan's perspective and the parade to the free throw line(especially for those free throw relying teams/players) would stop.

[Horse]

This is ing bull with all the stuff those gots get away with. The league has become so transparent

[boutons_deux]

I feel bad for Tiago too. But the guy's making $8M per year. $5,000 is spare change for him.

And with fines and penalties for Corporate-Americans, maybe it's tax deductible for Human-Americans.

[Blake]

The big deal is it takes the offensive player out of the play. Have you ever seen a defender properly defend while lying on his back?

How does it take the offensive player out if the defensive player is lying on his back?

[Seventyniner]

And that Westbrook "steal" made the top 5 play.

So did Manu's illegal move in Toronto where he bounced the ball between the defender's legs, went out of bounds and back in and caught it on the other side, then went for a fast break layup with the and 1.

[Jimmy Early]

I think the reason Splitter got the fine is because of the way he sprang back up and tried to get back into the play defensively. I'm sure Ginobilli and Parker will give him a few tips between games about how to sell the foul better, by grimacing as if in pain (ala Parker, and later perfected by Paul Pierce), and lolling around on the ground after flopping (Ginobilli specialty), to better sell the flop.

[Dex]

[DarrinS]

It has to be this one

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/thiago-splitter-flop

[UZER]

So does Kahwi get a $5000 bonus for not flopping on durants "sweet" intentional elbow to his face?

[myhc]

that was pretty bad.

[Kindergarten Cop]

Obviously, Tiago was guilty of flopping on the play - but what is so different from what he did there compared to what Durant (among others) has been doing the entire series? I'm still shocked that Carter didn't get fined (considering that his flop was MUCH more obvious) in the first round:

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...to-mavs-video/