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Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki doesn't see the point in attempting to rid the game of flopping -- at least the moves used to help sell a foul call "a little bit."

Miami Heat star Chris Bosh has been fined $5,000 for flopping during Game 4 of the NBA Finals.

Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News: As Cornbread Maxwell noted after Boston destroyed the Lakers in Game 1 of the 1985 Finals, basketball isn't backgammon. You don't get extra credit for margin of victory. But the Spurs might have grounds t...

While NBA commissioner David Stern says the league needs to expand its anti-flopping rules, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is funding a study on the practice.

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.

• NBA commissioner David Stern talks about how the league has changed during his tenure, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, the decision to fine Roy Hibbert, flopping, his plans for retirement and more. Stern • ESPN New York 98.7 FM...

It's a tale that has grown in the telling. It was February 1976, and the Boston Celtics were hosting the Houston Rockets at the grand old Boston Garden. At some point during the game, Houston guard Mike Newlin slid into the path of Dave Cowens as the...

The Grizzlies' Quincy Pondexter scores a date with Miss Tennessee, and Justin Bieber hunkers down and hides from Keyshawn Johndon in this week's Buzz That Was.

MIAMI -- The Heat and Pacers are tied 2-2 in an intense battle of basketball theory and X's and O's. We have the Pacers in one corner, a young and hungry team that wins by playing big and taking away the 3-pointer and the paint. Then you have the Hea...

Miami's LeBron James and Indiana's David West and Lance Stephenson have all been fined $5,000 by the NBA for violating the league's anti-flopping policy.

Flopping in the East finals has gotten out of hand. J.A. Adande and Israel Gutierrez search for answers.

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Let's set aside all the nonsense for a second — the outrageously bad blown 24-second call on the Pacers, the laughable officiating, the obsession with flopping that distracts from a beautiful game, and all the rest of the ancillary crap. In the...

LeBron James vehemently denies he's a flopper but openly recognizes it as an effective strategy.

In response to the NBA's $5,000 flopping fine on Grizzlies guard Tony Allen after Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, coach Lionel Hollins conceded the league's anti-flopping rules were appropriate and could possibly be enforced more widely.

The NBA has fined Grizzlies guard Tony Allen $5,000 for violating the league's anti-flopping rule during Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the San Antonio Spurs.