{"id":539201,"date":"2026-01-15T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/539201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:37:32","slug":"dillon-brooks-and-the-looming-threat-of-a-league-imposed-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/539201\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks and the looming threat of a league-imposed suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dillon Brooks has helped the Phoenix Suns in many areas. Averaging a career high 21.3 points per game, he\u2019s the team\u2019s second-leading scorer, and his defensive presence and energy have been infectious for the younger players on the team. Brooks is one of the main reasons the team is surprising many and on pace to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Brooks\u2019 fiery attitude has helped the team in many outings, it\u2019s also hindered them. He got his technical foul against the Miami Heat rescinded from the last game, but he\u2019s on the verge of a suspension due to too many technical fouls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Despite having two rescinded already, Brooks is leading the NBA in technical fouls with 13, he\u2019s three techs away from a one-game suspension. Playing 34 games this season, he\u2019s picking up a technical in about 38% of his games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brooks is known for getting technical fouls. Both last season and in the 2022-2023 campaign, he was suspended for surpassing the amount of technical fouls allowed; it looks like he\u2019s going to do the same this year. The most techs he\u2019s gotten in a season is 18, which he did with the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2022-23 campaign<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Playing an aggressive style, some of Brooks\u2019 most notable technical fouls this season have come when he\u2019s faced LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Against the Lakers last month, Brooks got into it with LeBron James. He has a longstanding history of instigating James, dating back to when they faced off in the 2022-23 playoffs, and he called him old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the betterment of the team, do you think Brooks needs to be more careful with his play style, or do you think the good outweighs all the technicals he gets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks has helped the Phoenix Suns in many areas. Averaging a career high 21.3 points per game,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604,4728],"class_list":{"0":"post-539201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns","14":"tag-suns-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115901277457951779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539201","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=539201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}