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NEW YORK \u2014 The NBA has handed down a one-game suspension without pay to Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic after he accumulated his 16th technical foul of the current season, league officials confirmed Saturday.<\/p>

The league’s top scorer received dual technical fouls in the third period of Los Angeles’ commanding 116-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday evening.<\/p>

The incident began when Brooklyn’s Ziaire Williams enthusiastically celebrated an offensive foul call against Doncic by shouting directly at the star player from close range. Doncic attempted to push Williams’ arm away, prompting Williams to swing his hand across Doncic’s face in response.<\/p>

NBA regulations mandate an automatic one-game suspension without compensation once any player or coach accumulates 16 technical fouls in a regular season. Additional suspensions follow for every pair of technical fouls beyond that threshold.<\/p>

The suspension will take effect Monday when Los Angeles welcomes the Washington Wizards to their home court. Doncic contributed 41 points in the victory over Brooklyn.<\/p>

Following Friday’s contest, Doncic explained his perspective on the altercation: “He was yelling in my face three times. I just wanted to get out of there. It’s a double tech, of course. What can I say? I didn’t even talk. I just wanted to get out of there. (The referee) said my push was exaggerated, which (it) was obviously not. I don’t know what else to say.”<\/p>

Game officials conducted a review of the confrontation before assessing technical fouls to both participants.<\/p>

The league recently overturned one of Doncic’s previous technical fouls from last week following a dispute with Orlando’s Goga Bitadze. While the NBA did not provide an official explanation for the reversal, Doncic claimed Bitadze made derogatory comments about his family in Serbian, which Bitadze disputed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic will miss Monday’s game against Washington after receiving his 16th technical foul of the season. The NBA’s leading scorer was penalized following a confrontation with Brooklyn’s Ziaire Williams during Friday’s victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/news-1774740978272.jpg?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-br6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43998,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/nbas-leading-scorer-doncic-sits-one-game-after-technical-foul-accumulation\/","url_meta":{"origin":43964,"position":0},"title":"NBA’s Leading Scorer Doncic Sits One Game After Technical Foul Accumulation","author":"Admin","date":"March 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic will miss Monday's game against Washington after receiving his 16th technical foul of the season. 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