you can't "fix" flopping. you can fix bitching and whining, which tends to follow the flopping, which the nba at least tried to do this season by increasing the amount of T's called. you can't put a rule in against flopping. vlade divac in the 90s was just as bad as manu or any of these other guys. it's not a disgrace to the game... it's part of the game. it's being crafty, it's good gamesmanship. the problem is when guys do it so often that they turn themselves into a joke, not the game... themselves. vlade did it, so has manu. his flops are so blatant and obvious that he really has become a punch line now, to the point where he's known now more for his flopping than he is for his game. which is a shame 'cause he's a good player, but he did it to himself.
the nba may look into the leave the bench rule, but they might not... they didn't look into it after it fucked over the knicks, so why would they look into it after it fucked over the suns?
the spurs are the best run front office in the entire nba. by a significant margin. this can't be denied. tim duncan is one of the greatest power forwards to ever play, maybe the greatest. this, too, can not be denied. but what else can't be denied is that their prefered style of play is as boring as sin. they can play a more uptempt style, they just choose not to.