Twitter has enough of Kemba Walker's flopping in Celtics-Heat Game 5

Tom Gatto

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Twitter could see through Kemba Walker's flopping in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night even though the officials on the floor seemed to have problems detecting it.

The Celtics guard was risking whiplash whenever he threw his head back and contorted his body to make it look as if he had been gravely injured by a Heat player. Here are two of the more obvious instances, featuring Goran Dragic and Jimmy Butler:

Dragic was called for committing a "hostile act" with his off-balance contact.

Walker was not able to slide on the "contact" with Butler, however; he was called for the personal, which was upheld on review.

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Walker committed three fouls in the first half as Boston tried to force Game 6.

Walker's embellishing gave social media a rare layup:

Walker got the last laugh. The Celtics erased a halftime deficit and rolled to a season-extending victory.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.