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Oklahoma City's Derek Fisher was fined $5,000 by the NBA on Monday for flopping in Game 5 of the Thunder's first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets.

The NBA will fine players $5,000 for a first flopping offense during the playoffs.

A press release from the NBA: The NBA has set the league's anti-flopping disciplinary schedule to be used during the 2013 Playoffs, NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations Stu Jackson announced today. "Flopping" is defined as any phys...

Bravo, Slate, for this wonderful bit of Flop theater....

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images Chris Paul, a candidate for MVP of flopping, hasn't been punished. The NBA began the season with a new rule against flopping, and the early indications were it made a difference. Since 2013 began, however, the NBA h...

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Binder was on display in all its glory today when Joe Girardi finally decided to do what he has been hinting at all spring, flip-flopping Curtis Granderson and Brett Gardner in center and left. That topic consumed most of the manag...

Brooklyn Nets point guard C.J. Watson has been given a warning by the NBA for violating the league's new anti-flopping rules during Wednesday night's victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

David Sherman/NBAE/Getty Images C.J. Watson's big game against Minnesota included a memorable flop against J.J. Barea. It's rare for a flopper to confess. But that's just what C.J. Watson did Wednesday night following the Nets win over Minnesota. ...

Gary Dineen/Getty Images Henson doesn't yet have the heft to deal with Dwight Howard inside. At 6-11 and just 220 pounds, John Henson may not be cut out to bang with all 265 muscular pounds of Dwight Howard in the paint. On Tuesday night the same c...

Evil Dead — Full Red Band Trailer (April 12) Silver: My brain is flopping around my skull like a Jell-O ring riding a go-cart down a bumpy hill. That was 2:22 of unrelenting terror, horror, and gore. And the highest form of praise I can lo...

Howard Beck of The New York Times: In the beginning, there was intrigue - catchy slogans, competing chants and visions of a basketball rivalry that would split New York. It was interesting, for a moment or two. By the time the Knicks and the Nets met...

Jared Wickerham/Getty Images Rajon Rondo out-thinks people all the time -- sometimes including referees. Mavericks guard Derek Fisher fouled out with 1:07 left in the first overtime on what was, in slow-motion, a whopper of a flop by Rajon Rondo. F...

Brooklyn Nets small forward Gerald Wallace became the second player in the NBA -- and second Net -- to be fined under the league's new anti-flopping rules.

Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty ImagesChauncey Billups deployed veteran trickery to great effect Monday night.Chauncey Billups is a high risk to receive a flopping warning from the NBA league office after his egregious "roughing the punter" flop -- the...

After another season of flip-flopping and inconsistent play, Texas again faces another offseason with questions at QB

David Sherman/NBAE/Getty Images J.J. Barea kept flopping against the Kings until it paid off. Three weeks after receiving a warning from the NBA for flopping, J.J. Barea earned #FlopOfTheNight honors (Video) for his acting work against the Isaiah T...