Spurs Rookie Asked a Very Good Question After Seeing LeBron James’s Awful Flop in Game 2

A lot of people have wondered this over the years.

Andy Nesbitt | May 19, 2023

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The topic of LeBron James and other Lakers players flopping to draw fouls has been brought up a lot so far in the 2023 NBA playoffs.

James has denied that they work on flopping and says the team doesn’t flop at all. And then, well, he pulled off a flop so hard in Game 2 against the Nuggets that everyone on Twitter instantly calls him out.

One of those fans who wasn’t impressed with James’s fourth-quarter flop that drew a foul against Nikola Jokić was Spurs rookie Jeremy Sochan. The 19-year-old power forward was apparently watching the Lakers-Nuggets game and tweeted this question after that bad flop by James:

That's pretty funny and also a question that a lot of people have been asking over the years.

But yeah, this was a bad flop:

NBA fans had reactions to his question:

Published May 19, 2023

ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.