{"id":6428,"date":"2012-10-29T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:39:59","slug":"nba-stopping-the-flopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"NBA:  Stopping The Flopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnational.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1136\" title=\"APnational\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnational-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Oct 29, 2012<\/p>\n<p>By JON KRAWCZYNSKI<br \/>\n\u00a0AP Basketball Writer<br \/>\n\u00a0Floppers beware.<br \/>\n\u00a0The NBA is set to open its season with three games on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>One of the points of emphasis this year is getting rid of<br \/>\nthe flopping that seemed so prevalent throughout the playoffs last<br \/>\nseason, with players literally taking a dive in hopes of a foul<br \/>\ncall on the other team.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The league instituted a new set of guidelines this fall aimed at<br \/>\ncurtailing the tactic.<\/p>\n<p>Officials will review game tapes and issue a warning the first time they see a player try to dupe a referee into calling a foul by embellishing contact.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the fines start coming, ranging from $5,000 for the second offense up to $30,000 for the fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 29, 2012 By JON KRAWCZYNSKI \u00a0AP Basketball Writer \u00a0Floppers beware. \u00a0The NBA is set to open its season with three games on Tuesday night. One of the points of emphasis this year is getting rid of the flopping that seemed so prevalent throughout the playoffs last season, with players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}