{"id":674631,"date":"2026-03-22T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674631\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:07:12","slug":"luka-doncic-avoids-suspension-after-nba-rescinds-16th-technical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674631\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic avoids suspension after NBA rescinds 16th technical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DETROIT\u00a0\u2014\u00a0He\u2019s the hottest player in the NBA. Not even the NBA\u2019s technical foul rule can slow Luka Doncic<\/a> down.<\/p>\n

The NBA rescinded Doncic\u2019s 16th technical foul, the league announced Sunday, allowing Doncic to avoid a mandatory one-game suspension that would have kept him out of Monday\u2019s game against the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

Doncic and the Lakers<\/a> appealed the call after he was given a technical for taunting against Orlando Magic forward Goga Bitadze<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s Lakers win. Bitadze\u2019s technical foul was also rescinded after the European players were arguing while Doncic was shooting free throws. Doncic claimed Bitadze made a vulgar comment<\/a> toward Doncic\u2019s family in Serbian while Bitadze said he first heard inappropriate comments from Doncic and only repeated what he heard the Lakers guard say.<\/p>\n

Often criticized for arguing with officials, Doncic remains at 15 technical fouls this season, second in the NBA behind Phoenix\u2019s Dillon Brooks. In 2023, Doncic also had his 16th technical foul rescinded, avoiding a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n

Doncic\u2019s historic scoring run has fueled the Lakers\u2019 nine-game winning streak, their best since the 2019-20 season that ended with an NBA championship. Doncic, the NBA\u2019s leading scorer, is averaging 40 points per game during the winning streak while shooting 40.3% from three-point range. His 60-point outburst<\/a> against the Miami Heat last Thursday was the first 60-point game in Lakers history since Kobe Bryant\u2019s last game in 2016. He was just the seventh Lakers player to record a 60-point game, joining legends Bryant, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Jerry West and Shaquille O\u2019Neal.<\/p>\n

The winning streak has vaulted the Lakers from sixth in the West to third. They have navigated the most difficult stretch of their schedule with seven wins over playoff-bound teams.<\/p>\n

The Pistons, poised to earn the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs for the first time since 2007, are without their own star player as guard Cade Cunningham is sidelined for at least two weeks with a collapsed lung. Detroit is 2-0 without him with wins over Washington and Golden State.<\/p>\n

Note: <\/b>Rui Hachimura (right calf soreness), Maxi Kleber (lumbar back strain) and Marcus Smart (right ankle soreness) are questionable for Monday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT\u00a0\u2014\u00a0He\u2019s the hottest player in the NBA. Not even the NBA\u2019s technical foul rule can slow Luka Doncic…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":674632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[271027,1582,276,284506,1910,196029,271864,2961,284503,224,5337,3365,284507,9548,1260,284505,5950,8488,284504,59883],"class_list":["post-674631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-16th-technical","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-first-60-point-game","tag-game","tag-goga-bitadze","tag-jerry-west","tag-la","tag-lakers-win","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mandatory-one-game-suspension","tag-monday","tag-nba","tag-right-calf-soreness","tag-season","tag-streak","tag-technical-foul-rule","tag-wilt-chamberlain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116275108041725940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674631","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=674631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}