Dwyane Wade fined $5,000 for flopping in Game 2.

MIAMI —Turns out what the NBA deemed some second-quarter theatrics will cost DwyaneWade.

The league fined Wade $5,000 on Monday for “violating the league’s anti-flopping rules during Game 2 of the NBA Finals.” The fine came a day after the Heat evened the best-of-seven NBA Finals with a 98-96 win over San Antonio on Sunday night.

The play in question happened with 4:09 left in the second quarter when the Spurs’ Manu Ginobili swatted at the ball while defending Wade near midcourt. It appeared as if Ginobili didn’t hit Wade, or may have grazed him, but Wade lurched back as if he’d been hit in the face.

Ginobili was called for the foul, his third of the game, and went to the bench. Wade, meanwhile, went to the line where he converted on a pair of free throws to give pull Miami within 37-36.

Monday, before the fine was handed down, Wade insisted hewas hit on the play.

“He took a swipe and he hit me. It was a late call by the ref, but he called it. I think thatwas the biggest thing, because it was late everybody went “Oooh,” but he hit me,” he said. “So, it was…[Mario Chalmers] threw it up to me, I sawManu coming out of the corner ofmy eye to try and steal it, so my only thing was that to make sure he didn’t steal it, and he swiped. The ref called the foul andwe move on.”

Except now, Wade will move on with a lighterwallet.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had his players come in from treatment and a film session on Monday and said then he isn’t surprised there’s a higher level of scrutiny when it comes to flopping in the postseason, though he didn’t address the Wade-Ginobili play specifically.

“More attention to it? Probably more people in the league office watching each possession,” Spoelstra said.

Wade was not warned or fined for flopping during the regular season and has not been fined during the postseason, though two players the Heat faced in the Eastern Conference finals — Lance Stephenson and Roy Hibbert — were both fined during that series. The Spurs’ Tiago Splitter was also fined for flopping during theWestern Conference finals against Oklahoma City.

TheNBAdefines flopping as “any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause the referees to call a foul on another player,” and says the primary factor in determining whether a player flopped is “whether his physical reaction to contact with another player is inconsistent with what would reasonably be expected given the force or direction of the contact.”

The NBA has a progressive fining schedule for flopping during the postseason and if Wade were to flop again, his next finewould be $10,000.