flagrant foul


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flagrant foul

n. Basketball
A foul called on a player who commits unnecessary or excessive contact with an opponent.
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Upon review, the league upgraded the flagrant foul penalty 1 slapped on him to flagrant foul penalty 2.
TNT KaTropa's Terrence Jones was fined P20,000 on Saturday after his headbutt on San Miguel Beer guard Chris Ross in Game 3 of the PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals was upgraded to a Flagrant Foul 2 even as team owner Manny V.
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Aside from the indefinite suspension, Abueva was fined P20,000 for disrespecting Blackwater rookie RayRay Parks' girlfriend Maika Rivera during the Phoenix-Blackwater game last Friday and P50,000 for the flagrant foul 2 he incurred in clotheslining Jones during the Phoenix-TNT last Sunday.
It was an emotionally charged game as Jared Dudley and Jimmy Butler were also ejected after a fracas midway through the third quarter after a flagrant foul by Joel Embiid on Allen.
Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry each had 32 points for the Warriors, who watched the game turn on a flagrant foul called on Draymond Green.
LaDontae Henton was hobbled by foul trouble early and was forced to sit out a crucial five-minute stretch in the fourth because of a flagrant foul 1 infraction, developments that helped the Aces a great deal as he was fresh for the stretch.
In a blog post two days ago, Yair Rosenberg wrote about a Presbyterian minister who committed "the interfaith equivalent of a flagrant foul" by suggesting that America, not Israel, was the Jewish Promised Land.
That included a two-handed take-down by Hinrich in the first quarter, and a rough grab by Taj Gibson in the fourth that was reviewed and ruled a common rather than flagrant foul. "I feel like I got the worst of it," Hinrich said of his foul on James -- who still gained two points from the play by making two free throws.
Woods won't face discipline from coach for flagrant foul
1-3-09: Joel Pryzbilla fined $7,500 for flagrant foul and role in altercation in a game against the Bulls
Howard and Cleveland's Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Anderson Varejao all fouled out, as officials called 58 personals, two technicals, and a flagrant foul in the bitterly contested game.