{"id":639780,"date":"2026-03-04T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:24:26","slug":"cavalier-punished-for-flopping-in-win-over-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/639780\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavalier punished for flopping in win over Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> took down the conference-leading Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Tuesday, thanks in part to 22 points from Jaylon Tyson<\/a> and how well he defended MVP candidate Cade Cunningham. Tyson stepped up admirably on defense as he was physical at the point of attack and did a good job of shadowing Cunningham everywhere he went on the court.<\/p>\n

There was, however, one exception to this.<\/p>\n

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The league office took offense at a second-quarter play where Tyson comically embellished some contact from Cunningham. Tyson threw his head back and staggered from just inside the free-throw line to the baseline, trying to get a call that didn\u2019t come. Fortunately for the Cavs, Evan Mobley was there to provide a late contest.<\/p>\n

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The league office deemed that Tyson\u2019s embellishment of the contact rose to the level of a \u201cflop.\u201d He was fined by the league $2,000 on Wednesday evening<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that Tyson\u2019s antics weren\u2019t rewarded with an offensive foul in the moment.<\/p>\n

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It was a ridiculous flop from Tyson, but whether or not it was worthy of the $2,000 fine is up for debate. Tyson obviously oversold the call, but not in a believable way. Would he have been fined if he were slightly better at flopping? Is that the lesson here? And if so, is that what we should be enforcing?<\/p>\n

Either way, it was still a great night for Tyson, who had a standout performance with his brother Jordyn, who\u2019s getting ready to be a top pick in the upcoming NFL Draft<\/a>, in attendance.<\/p>\n

Tyson finished the game with 22 points on 5-12 shooting from three to go along with four assists and three rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers took down the conference-leading Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, thanks in part to 22 points from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,909,305,193,24258,296,188,3860,576,912,2286,6,16,297,3209],"class_list":["post-639780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-david-richard-imagn","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-evan-mobley","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jaylon-tyson","tag-nba","tag-ohio","tag-pistons","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116173490122204739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}