Utah Jazz: Chauncey Billups' action was a flop

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 5 2012 10:30 p.m. MST

Summary

Mo Williams chuckled when asked about the NBA giving Chauncey Billups an official warning for the flop he performed in Monday night's game between the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers. "Guess it was bad call."

"I hate to put it on a foreign guy, though, but a lot of it started when we started getting more international players in there," Corbin said. "I guess it was how they played the game over there."

So far, though, Brooklyn's Reggie Evans and Gerald Wallace are the only NBA players who have tallied two flopping violations and a $5,000 fine this season. However, Billups became the seventh NBA player to be warned.

The list of players with one flop warning includes Billups, Cleveland's Donald Sloan, Minnesota's JJ Barea, Oklahoma's Kevin Martin and Houston's Patrick Patterson.

It might come to some NBA fans' surprise that the San Antonio Spurs, even Manu Ginobili, have not yet been warned for flopping.

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Henry Drummond

San Jose, CA

If this rule had been in effect in past years Matt Harpring would have had to get a second job just to pay the fines.

1:48 p.m. Dec. 6, 2012
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fortydam

OREM, UT

If Billups got warned for the flop, shouldn't the game be in protest? It was that flop, and the subsequent foul shots that sealed the victory. And Henry, Matt never flopped! He is the football playing tough guy! It was Collins that was the More..

8:27 a.m. Dec. 7, 2012
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DougC

San Diego, CA

@ Henry Drummond

Matt Harpring was never a flopper. Playing Physical was his main part of the game.

9:26 a.m. Dec. 7, 2012
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