There’s a scene that replayed itself over and over during last spring’s thrilling Western Conference semifinal series between the Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder.
The script went like this: Luka Dončić would drive into some contact from Luguentz Dort, Dort would go down, and Dončić would turn to the official and immediately ask for a technical foul for flopping. Sometimes he’d put his hands together for a technical foul signal. Sometimes he’d have his palm flat to the floor, lifting it up and down — the official signal for a flopping violation. One time, he and Kyrie Irving managed to synchronize their requests (see second clip below):
Either way, Dončić’s
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