news | March 24, 2026

The 20 Biggest Floppers in Sports Today | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Luis Scola, though not quite up there with the LeBrons and the Ginobilis of the world, is certainly one of the league's most notorious floppers. And as fellow flopper Shane Battier told ESPN.com's Tom Haberstroh, sometimes it's all about the hair.

Scola has perfected the art of selling the foul, hard or soft. And some of it comes down to more than arms and legs flying everywhere. Some of it just comes down to the hair.

When Battier and Scola were both members of the Houston Rockets, they had to be considered one of the most Oscar-worthy flopping teams in the NBA. And now that two of the league's biggest perpetrators are apart, Battier is pulling on punches in stating the facts for the rest of the world. He told Haberstroh: