{"id":18998,"date":"2014-05-21T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nba-fines-pacers-stephenson-for-flopping\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:16:00","slug":"nba-fines-pacers-stephenson-for-flopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nba-fines-pacers-stephenson-for-flopping\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fines Pacers&#8217; Stephenson for flopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson was fined $5,000 by the NBA Wednesday for violating the league&#8217;s anti-flopping rules during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson threw his right arm up and fell backward to the floor after making slight contact with LeBron James after the Heat star dribbled past midcourt with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson was whistled for a blocking foul on the play, which occurred with 3:37 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Miami won the game 87-83 to even the best-of-seven series at one game apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson was fined $5,000 by the NBA Wednesday for violating the league&#8217;s anti-flopping rules during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. Stephenson threw his right arm up and fell backward to the floor after making slight contact with LeBron James after the Heat star dribbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92,91,93],"class_list":["post-18998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-pacers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}