For the second time this season, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has picked up his 16th technical foul. We\u2019ll see if this one sticks.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Lakers star is facing a one-game suspension from the NBA after again reaching a critical mass of technical fouls. This time, he got T\u2019d up for a confrontation with Ziaire Williams of the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
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Both men appeared to get a hand on each other while exchanging words in the third quarter, leading to a double technical.<\/p>\n
Don\u010di\u0107 went on to score 41 points in the Lakers\u2019 116-99 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s defense, via ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cHe was in my face three times, I just wanted to get out of there. It\u2019s a double tech, of course. What can I say? I didn\u2019t even talk, I just wanted to get out of there. They said my push was exaggerated, which was obviously not.\u201d<\/p>\n He finished the game with 41 points, his NBA-best 15th 40-point game of the season.<\/p>\n The NBA can still rescind the technical foul, which has already happened this season. Don\u010di\u0107 got his 16th tech after getting into it with Orlando Magic forward Goga Bitadze, but the NBA opted to rescind the foul rather than have him sit out a clash with the Detroit Pistons. Another tech was rescinded earlier in the season, in a clear case of a mistaken official<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If this one isn\u2019t rescinded, Don\u010di\u0107 will miss the Lakers\u2019 game against the Washington Wizards on Monday.<\/p>\n If it goes through, it will be the first time Don\u010di\u0107 has received the technical foul suspension, though he\u2019s come close in the past. He finished three straight seasons from 2020 to 2023 with 15 techs and had 13 last season. He was actually in the same position in 2023, but the NBA decided to rescind the 16th tech in that case<\/a>.<\/p>\n Don\u010di\u0107 would be the second player in the NBA to receive such a suspension, joining Phoenix Suns villain Dillon Brooks<\/a>. Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has also been suspended multiple times due to his six flagrant fouls<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s foul isn\u2019t rescinded, he will face a $5,000 fine for every subsequent technical foul and another one-game suspension for every two techs for the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time this season, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has picked up his 16th technical foul. We\u2019ll see if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,247,188,1195,875,150,368,152,6,76,472,373,2230,468,4610],"class_list":["post-683612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-goga-bitadze","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-technical-foul","tag-washington-wizards","tag-ziaire-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116305162344743491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683612","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=683612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}