Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Word of the Day: verbal flop
By Basketbawful at 8:22 AM
6 comments


verbal flop (vur'-buhl flahp) noun. An exaggerated groan, scream, or cry of frustration that is emitted for the sole purpose of drawing a foul. Usually accompanied by a grimace of pain and anguish.

Usage example: Even though the defenders were either standing still or had a hand on the ball, Kobe was able to draw the foul with a verbal flop.

Word History: In Patrick Hruby's ESPN.com article The Art of the Flop, Dallas guard Jason Terry refers to Laker guard Kobe Bryant as a "verbal flopper, able to coax a call out of a single well-timed scream."

verbal flop
Eric Snow is standing still. Lebron has the ball.
But Kobe still draws the foul with a verbal flop.
6 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
As we always say when we play pickup/rec league ball, just because you yell doesn't mean there was a foul.
3/21/2006 4:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
That's definitely not LeBron in the headband.
11/12/2008 12:09 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
ya man NOT LEBRON
looks more like hughes?
11/14/2008 10:08 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
Flip Murray. Jeff Van Gundy made reference to the verbal flop on air earlier this year. I thought it was an original observation at the time.
5/04/2009 10:57 PM  
Anonymous Gabriel said...
A foul wasn't even called on this play. Murray stole the ball and Kobe got a tech for whining.
6/20/2009 1:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
PAUL "I'm the best player in the world" Pierce is the grandmaster of all verbal flops -
6/28/2010 1:25 PM  
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