{"id":636100,"date":"2026-03-06T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/636100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:20:17","slug":"lakers-star-luka-doncic-one-technical-foul-away-from-a-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/636100\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star Luka Doncic one technical foul away from a suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lakers star Luka Doncic<\/a> is one technical away from receiving an automatic one-game suspension after he picked up his 15th technical of the season in a 120-113 loss<\/a> to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Doncic, who had 27 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, was charged with a technical with 5:43 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because I yelled at him, I guess. That\u2019s what he said,\u201d said Doncic about his interaction with referee Ed Malloy. \u201cBut I heard three other players say the exact same sentence and didn\u2019t get a tech. And that\u2019s my problem, you know, I was trying not to talk at all. This is the first thing I said \u2014 no warning or nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malloy said after the game that Doncic was issued a technical for \u201cusing profanity directed towards a referee.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NBA automatically suspends any player who receives 16 technical fouls during a season. Doncic has reached the threshold twice in his career, but the NBA rescinded the 16th technical<\/a> each time, allowing him to avoid suspension.<\/p>\n

Doncic wasn\u2019t making any guarantees about whether he\u2019ll be able to avoid another technical.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see,\u201d he said. \u201cCan\u2019t predict the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lakers star Luka Doncic is one technical away from receiving an automatic one-game suspension after he picked up…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[271024,271027,271026,1582,276,3134,1910,51635,2961,38269,224,2444,5337,3365,1260,271025,5950,76407,256044,3046],"class_list":["post-636100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-15th-technical","tag-16th-technical","tag-automatic-suspension","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-game","tag-interaction","tag-la","tag-laker","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-other-player","tag-season","tag-suspension","tag-technical-foul","tag-thursday-night"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116181731046637688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636100","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=636100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}