{"id":528957,"date":"2026-01-11T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:49:33","slug":"nba-suspends-dennis-schroder-for-confrontation-with-luka-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528957\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends Dennis Schroder for confrontation with Luka Doncic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sacramento Kings guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/player\/203471\/dennis-schroder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dennis Schroder<\/a> has been suspended three games without pay for an off-court incident in which he tried to strike another player during a confrontation, the NBA said Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The league said the confrontation occurred about 40 minutes after the Kings\u2019 125-101 loss to the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-28\/lakers-sacramento-kings-luka-doncic-lebron-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers on Dec. 28<\/a>, when Schroder sought out the other player in a hallway at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The league did not disclose the name of the Lakers player, but <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47576426\/schroder-suspended-trying-strike-doncic-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to ESPN<\/a> it was <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-01-09\/los-angeles-lakers-milwaukee-bucks-nba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a>. The pair had been sniping at each other all game, with Doncic at one point taunting Schroder for not signing an $84-million contract with the Lakers in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Schroder will miss home games against the Houston Rockets on Sunday night, the Lakers on Monday night and the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s eligible to return for a Friday home game against the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1 Schroder, who has played for 10 teams in a 12-year NBA career, is averaging 13 points and 5.7 assists per game this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sacramento Kings guard Dennis Schroder has been suspended three games without pay for an off-court incident in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,62467,7821,1024,142,73107,1735,3593,300,2501,368,12244,6,18,65,3218],"class_list":["post-528957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-confrontation","tag-crypto","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-game","tag-hallway","tag-home-game","tag-king","tag-lakers","tag-league","tag-luka-doncic","tag-monday-night","tag-nba","tag-player","tag-point","tag-schroder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115875372298879577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}