James Harden is trying to teach us about flopping. Don’t you get it? Just watch this video of him getting into it with a heckler at Los Angeles’ famed Drew League:
The heckler is pretty spectacular: “How many free throws you got? … You flopping out there, bro. You Vlade Divac’ing out there, bro.”
But Harden has a response: “A flop means you don’t get touched.”
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Of course, that’s not really true. Flopping means exaggerating the effect of contact.