{"id":538905,"date":"2026-10-01T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=538905"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:19:32","slug":"chris-finch-backs-nba-crackdown-on-flopping-nobody-wants-to-watch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chris-finch-backs-nba-crackdown-on-flopping-nobody-wants-to-watch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Finch backs NBA crackdown on flopping: \u201cNobody wants to watch it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Finch has welcomed the NBA\u2019s tougher stance on flopping ahead of the 2026-27 season. The Timberwolves coach: \u201cJust stop rewarding these non-basketball actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHopefully the league cleans up this crap, because nobody wants to watch it,\u201d Finch told <strong>The Athletic<\/strong>. \u201cThe fans are tired of watching the flopping. We know it\u2019s been rewarded at too high a level, so just stop rewarding it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NBA is expected to be more aggressive with technical fouls during games and fines afterward. \u201cFor me it\u2019s a simple fix. Just don\u2019t reward these non-basketball actions. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Finch backs the NBA\u2019s tougher stance on flopping: \u201cNobody wants to watch it. Just stop rewarding non-basketball actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-538905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Minnesota-Timberwolves.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538906,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538905\/revisions\/538906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538905"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=538905"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=538905"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=538905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}