The NBA announced an "in-game flopping penalty" for the 2023-24 season that includes technical foul calls and fines that increase for repeat offenders. It comes after another season full of finger-pointing about players flopping to get favourable whistles.
According to the league, a flop is considered a "physical act that reasonably appears to be intended to cause the officials to call a foul on another player."
When such a violation occurs, the NBA wrote in a statement, "the offending player will be charged with a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul and the opposing team will be awarded one free throw attempt, which could be attempted by any player who is in the game when the technical foul is assessed. A player will not be ejected from a game based on flopping violations."
