{"id":582763,"date":"2026-02-04T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/582763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:16:28","slug":"lakers-jaxson-hayes-has-been-suspended-1-game-for-pushing-wizards-mascot-g-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/582763\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Jaxson Hayes has been suspended 1 game for pushing Wizards mascot &#8216;G-Wiz&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jaxson-hayes-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxson Hayes<\/a> received a one-game suspension on Wednesday for pushing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/washington-wizards-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a>&#8216; mascot before a game last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Hayes pushed the mascot \u201cG-Wiz\u201d during pre-game introductions ahead of the Lakers\u2019 142-111 win on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Hayes had 10 points, three rebounds, an assist and a steal off the bench. He will serve the suspension on Feb. 5 when the Lakers host the Philadelphia 76ers, according to a statement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Hayes was drafted by Atlanta in the first round of the 2019 draft, but his rights were immediately traded over to New Orleans. He spent his first four seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelicans<\/a> before joining the Lakers in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes received a one-game suspension on Wednesday for pushing the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-582763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116014677407324200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582763","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=582763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}