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Andy Nesbitt

A lot of people have wondered this over the years.

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The topic of LeBron James and other Lakers players flopping to draw fouls has been brought up a lot so far in the 2023 NBA playoffs. 

James has denied that they work on flopping and says the team doesn’t flop at all. And then, well, he pulled off a flop so hard in Game 2 against the Nuggets that everyone on Twitter instantly calls him out. 

One of those fans who wasn’t impressed with James’s fourth-quarter flop that drew a foul against Nikola Jokić was Spurs rookie Jeremy Sochan. The 19-year-old power forward was apparently watching the Lakers-Nuggets game and tweeted this question after that bad flop by James: 

That's pretty funny and also a question that a lot of people have been asking over the years. 

But yeah, this was a bad flop: 

NBA fans had reactions to his question: 

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