{"id":1851974,"date":"2026-03-28T04:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1851974"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:43:30","slug":"luka-doncic-to-serve-1-game-suspension-after-lakers-star-picks-up-16th-technical-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1851974","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to serve 1-game suspension after Lakers star picks up 16th technical foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 was whistled for his 16th technical foul in the third quarter of Friday\u2019s game against the Brooklyn Nets, which will yield an automatic one-game suspension unless the technical is later rescinded.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers star will serve his suspension Monday against the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 received his 16th technical with just over five minutes remaining in the third quarter after committing an offensive foul in the backcourt. Nets small forward Ziaire Williams came over to celebrate, and Don\u010di\u0107 shoved him aside. Williams reacted aggressively, triggering a review for a hostile act. Both Don\u010di\u0107 and Williams were assessed technical fouls after the review. Williams scored while drawing fouls on Don\u010di\u0107 twice in the Nets\u2019 next four possessions after the incident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"top-league-content-root\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 116-99 win, their 14th in their last 16 games. Don\u010di\u0107 finished with 41 points and 8 rebounds, his 15th 40-point game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>NBA rules require players to serve one-game suspensions after their 16th technical foul of the season, with subsequent one-game suspensions for every two additional technical fouls they commit. The count resets in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 appeared to pick up his 16th technical foul last week after an incident with Orlando Magic center Goga Bitadze, but the league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7139186\/2026\/03\/22\/luka-doncic-suspension-rescinded-lakers-nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescinded both players\u2019 technical fouls<\/a> after reviewing them the next day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 was whistled for his 16th technical foul in the third quarter of Friday\u2019s game against the Brooklyn Nets, which will yield an automatic one-game suspension unless the technical is later rescinded. The Los Angeles Lakers star will serve his suspension Monday against the Washington Wizards. Advertisement Don\u010di\u0107 received his 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1851974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}