{"id":475969,"date":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:15:07","slug":"suns-dillon-brooks-gets-1-game-ban-after-16th-technical-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475969\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks gets 1-game ban after 16th technical foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6eade89-5971-0e84-8ccb-cd91482b2b50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"653c07b5-8537-14ac-f4c6-b4e37919aca0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3155526\/dillon-brooks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Brooks<\/a> has been suspended for one game without pay by the NBA after receiving his 16th technical foul of the season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401810640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended for one game after receiving their 16th technical foul. Brooks will miss another game for every two additional technicals he receives this season.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks will miss the Suns&#8217; game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Brooks is in the midst of a breakout year in his first season with the Suns. The 6-foot-7 forward is averaging a career-high 21.2 points per game and his brash personality has been a driving force for the team&#8217;s surprising 32-23 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been suspended for one game without pay by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-475969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}