{"id":570858,"date":"2026-03-28T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:48:08","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-hit-with-1-game-suspension-for-16th-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570858\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Luka Doncic hit with 1-game suspension for 16th tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> has been suspended one game for receiving his 16th technical foul in Friday’s win over the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>, the NBA announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Doncic will serve the suspension during Monday’s game against the Washington Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doncic and Nets forward Ziaire Williams<\/a> were assessed double techs with 5:12 remaining in the third quarter of Friday’s game after jostling with each other following an offensive foul called on Doncic.<\/p>\n

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A video review showed Doncic pushing Williams and Williams retaliating by swiping at Doncic’s face. Both players were called for a technical foul by crew chief Sean Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doncic previously picked up his 16th tech last weekend for verbally sparring with Orlando Magic<\/a> center Goga Bitadze<\/a>, but the NBA rescinded the techs after the Lakers appealed to the league.<\/p>\n

The suspension will cost Doncic 1\/174th of his annual salary, or approximately $264,000. The punishment comes amid a torrid stretch for Doncic, with the superstar averaging 39.7 points, 8.1 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.5 steals in his past 12 games.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Dave McMenamin contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic has been suspended one game for receiving his 16th technical foul in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-570858","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\/570858","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=570858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}