{"id":685131,"date":"2026-03-29T01:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685131\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:08:28","slug":"luka-doncic-will-serve-one-game-suspension-for-techs-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685131\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic will serve one-game suspension for techs on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The NBA gave Luka Doncic<\/a> one mulligan. The league wouldn\u2019t grant the Lakers<\/a> superstar a second.<\/p>\n

Doncic will serve a one-game suspension because of technical foul accumulation, the NBA announced Saturday, sidelining him for Monday\u2019s game against the Washington Wizards after he picked up his 16th technical foul of the season in the Lakers\u2019 win<\/a> over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday.<\/p>\n

Doncic said he was trying to get away from Brooklyn\u2019s Ziaire Williams when he pushed the Nets forward aside with 5:12 remaining in the third quarter. Doncic had just been called for an offensive foul while the Lakers were attempting to inbound the ball. Williams was shouting in Doncic\u2019s direction. Doncic attempted to move past Williams and the 24-year-old from Lancaster then waved his arm behind him and slapped Doncic in the throat. Both were given technical fouls.<\/p>\n

Doncic said referees told him his push was \u201cexaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich was obviously [not the case],\u201d said Doncic, who scored 41 points with eight rebounds and three assists in the win.<\/p>\n

This is the second time in a week that Doncic has faced the mandatory suspension after getting his 16th technical foul, but he avoided the fate after the NBA rescinded a technical<\/a> he picked up against Orlando on March 21<\/a>. The reversal kept Doncic available for the Lakers\u2019 matchup with Eastern Conference-leading Detroit on March 23 in which Doncic scored 32 points, but missed the potential game-tying three at the buzzer of a tense 113-110 Lakers loss<\/a> that ended a nine-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s game will likely not have the same drama.<\/p>\n

The Wizards (17-56) have lost 17 of their last 18 games. The only win came against the Utah Jazz, another team that\u2019s attempting to position itself for the lottery more than the playoffs. Washington will be without Trae Young (quad) and Anthony Davis (finger), the team\u2019s two major midseason acquisitions.<\/p>\n

With another bottom-feeding team coming to Crypto.com<\/a> Arena, Doncic and the Lakers might actually benefit from resting the superstar. He played through left hamstring soreness Friday, and the Lakers (48-26) host the playoff-bound Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday. The days between Friday\u2019s win and Monday\u2019s game will be the Lakers\u2019 first two-day break since the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

Doncic, the NBA\u2019s leading scorer, has charged into the most valuable player conversation by helping lift the Lakers into third place in the Western Conference. He has scored 30 or more points in 12 consecutive games, the longest such streak for his career.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have won 15 of their last 20 games with Doncic averaging 35.5 points per game during the span. With 102 steals on the season, including three against the Nets, Doncic also became the first Laker since Kobe Bryant in 2012-13 averaging 30 or more points per game with 100 or more total steals.<\/p>\n

The Lakers could also be without guard Marcus Smart, who has missed the last three games because of a right ankle contusion. He also suffered a hip injury in a separate fall against Orlando, but he is showing improvement and remains day-to-day, Lakers coach JJ Redick said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA gave Luka Doncic one mulligan. The league wouldn\u2019t grant the Lakers superstar a second. Doncic will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,38,142,300,35185,368,7246,2123,6,671,59559,65,1653,396,86820,946,4610],"class_list":["post-685131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-friday","tag-game","tag-lakers","tag-lakers-superstar","tag-luka-doncic","tag-march","tag-monday","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-one-game-suspension","tag-point","tag-second","tag-team","tag-technical-foul-accumulation","tag-win","tag-ziaire-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116309794030217831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685131","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=685131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}