Bill Simmons leads off our Five for Friday with a sentiment that we at HoopIdea strongly endorse.

This edition also includes HoopIdeas from an NBA player and the Wall Street Journal, as well as a new mobile phone app that allows viewers to call out floppers then ranks teams and players by how often they flop -- enjoy!

EMBRACE CHANGE

Here's a good rule in general for all professional sports: If something sucks, you need to make the appropriate rule change so it doesn't suck anymore. This isn't rocket science. -- Bill Simmons on Grantland

WANT TO STOP THE FLOP? THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!

Flopbuzz is a completely free mobile app, where you can 'slap' a virtual buzzer on your mobile phone, everytime an NBA player 'flops', 'fakes' or 'cheats'. The Flopbuzz app accumulates all the users' buzzes (votes) to elect 'democratically' the most egregious flopper of the month, the season or the Playoffs. -- FlopBuzz.com

COUNT TECHNICAL FOULS AS PERSONALS

If a tech was also counted as a personal foul, might have less techs. -- Cleveland Cavaliers forward Anthony Parker (@_AnthonyPaker) via Twitter)

NO MORE BEAR HUG FOULS

A suggestion to curtail fouls the where the defender wraps up an offensive player without really going for the ball: How about calling these type of 'bear hugging' fouls (when you wrap your arms around a player) for a foul with two free throws and the ball on the side for the attacking player, regardless of what play he was going to make (most probably dunk the ball). -- Arash Kordi on NBA on My Mind

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