official release<\/a> on Saturday reads:<\/p>\n\u201cLos Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic has been suspended one game without pay for receiving his 16th technical foul of the 2025-26 season, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoncic received his most recent technical foul with 5:12 remaining in the third quarter of the Lakers\u2019 116-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets on March 27 at Crypto.com Arena. Doncic will serve his suspension March 30 when the Lakers host the Washington Wizards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who is coming to play? Is Bronny James going to play? Because in Saturday\u2019s G League game, he finished with 26 points, seven rebounds, five assists, and a steal on 9-of-12 shooting – it was stunning. On the other hand, Marcus Smart is dealing with an ankle injury. If he can make a comeback, he can help his team in Doncic’s absence:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s making improvements. He\u2019s still gonna be day-to-day,\u201d said Redick on Smart. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s the hope. Again, he took two hits, one of which kind of banged his hip up. And the fall on his ankle, so he\u2019s improving.\u201d<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s not much to worry about, because after one game, Doncic will be back to gear up on Tuesday vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers, with his post-rest fresh legs.<\/p>\n
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The Lakers’ standing in the Western Conference table: Thunder at the top with 58-16, Spurs next with 58-18, and Lakers 48-26 at third, while the Nuggets are behind at 48-26. With roughly two weeks left in the regular season, the race remains open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Luka Doncic will not be on the court against the Washington Wizards on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[208,7,1006,247,193,251,150,368,326,6,302,395,534,2230,682,468,3892,574,683,4610],"class_list":{"0":"post-686560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bronny-james","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-luka-doncic","16":"tag-marcus-smart","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nuggets","19":"tag-redick","20":"tag-spurs","21":"tag-technical-foul","22":"tag-washington","23":"tag-washington-wizards","24":"tag-washingtonwizards","25":"tag-western-conference","26":"tag-wizards","27":"tag-ziaire-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116314146572335406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686560","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=686560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}