Just saw something on the crawl that said J.R. Smith got a fine for flopping today, per our discussion from a few days ago. Only $5k though.
Five thousand bucks to a guy making JR Smith's $2.8 million salary is like $100 to a guy making $100,000. Ie, an insufficient deterrent. Flopping won't stop until the risk becomes worse than the obviously tangible reward.
The Caps' Ovechkin drew a critical penalty the other night by embellishing a hit. I am not proud, I wasn't happy, but damn if he didn't draw a huge penalty by doing it. If you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin.