{"id":398913,"date":"2025-11-23T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:21:28","slug":"dillon-brooks-racking-up-hefty-fines-techs-in-first-year-with-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/398913\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks racking up hefty fines, techs in first year with Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87268720007-1-rs-2348-copy.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks shares the last time he lacked confidence<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks scored a season-high 32 points in just 28 minutes in the Phoenix Suns&#8217; win against the Indiana Pacers on Nov. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA fined <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> forward Dillon Brooks $35,000 for \u201cconfronting and directing inappropriate language toward game officials\u201d after a 114-113 comeback win on Nov. 21 against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\/\" data-autotag=\"ac5e47f0-6bd5-488e-9fd0-a3a235704d6f\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks fouled out of the game with 18 seconds left with a team-high 22 points and Phoenix down a point. Collin Gillespie hit a short pull-up with 6.7 seconds left as the Suns closed on a 9-0 run in the game\u2019s final 49 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was hit with a $25,000 fine for \u201cmaking a lewd gesture on the playing court\u201d with 54 seconds left in the first half of Phoenix\u2019s 133-98 home win Nov. 13 over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" data-autotag=\"9c580fdc-190c-4799-8818-97e0f670368a\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season with the Suns, Brooks leads the NBA in technical fouls with four through games played through Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Fine amounts for the first through fifth technical fouls are $2,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>The fine amounts increase to the point that a player receives a $5,000 fine plus a one-game suspension when reaching 16 technical fouls.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Brooks finished second to T-Wolves All-Star Anthony Edwards in technical fouls with 16 in 75 games. Edwards racked up 17.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was with the Houston Rockets. The Suns landed Jalen Green, Brooks and the 10th overall pick in the 2025 draft, 7-footer Khaman Maluach, from Houston in the Kevin Durant trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks shares the last time he lacked confidence Dillon Brooks scored a season-high 32 points in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":398914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,8598,8613,5643,1587,1339,21587,21595,8599,21588,7007,2862,1267,7226,7192,3663,3131,1571,5382,1260,451,50,450,457,5999,1589,1721,62,1458,7231,6273,27761,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-398913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anthony","10":"tag-anthony-edwards","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-collin","15":"tag-collin-gillespie","16":"tag-edwards","17":"tag-gillespie","18":"tag-green","19":"tag-indiana","20":"tag-indiana-pacers","21":"tag-jalen","22":"tag-jalen-green","23":"tag-minnesota","24":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-negative","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-negative","32":"tag-pacers","33":"tag-phoenix","34":"tag-phoenix-suns","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-suns","38":"tag-timberwolves","39":"tag-twitter","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-united-states-of-america","42":"tag-unitedstates","43":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","44":"tag-us","45":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}