{"id":685473,"date":"2026-03-29T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685473\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:25:18","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-suspended-for-1-game-by-nba-after-his-16th-technical-foul-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685473\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic suspended for 1 game by NBA after his 16th technical foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/luka-doncic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> was suspended one game without pay by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> for receiving his 16th technical foul of the season, the league announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Doncic, the NBA&#8217;s scoring leader, got whistled for a double technical foul during the third quarter of the Lakers\u2019 116-99 victory over Brooklyn on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Nets\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ziaire-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ziaire Williams<\/a> was celebrating an offensive foul called against Doncic by gleefully screaming in Doncic\u2019s personal space. When Doncic reached out to push Williams\u2019 arm, Williams responded with a backhand swipe across Doncic\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Under NBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended without pay for one game when he receives his 16th technical foul during the regular season. For every two additional technical fouls during that regular season, they will be automatically suspended without pay for an additional game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Doncic, who scored 41 points against Brooklyn, will serve his suspension on Monday when the Lakers host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/washington-wizards-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">\u201cHe was yelling in my face three times,\u201d Doncic said after the game. \u201cI 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. (The referee) said my push was exaggerated, which (it) was obviously not. I don\u2019t know what else to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Officials reviewed the incident before issuing technical fouls to both players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Doncic already had a technical rescinded last week after he was whistled for a verbal altercation with Orlando\u2019s Goga Bitadze. The league didn\u2019t announce why it was rescinded, but Doncic said Bitadze insulted his family in Serbian \u2014 and Bitadze denied it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic was suspended one game without pay by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,150,368,1407,6,12,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-685473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","10":"tag-luka-doncic","11":"tag-national-basketball-association","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116310804070861246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685473","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=685473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}