Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks has been suspended without pay for one game and will miss Sunday’s contest in Los Angeles against the Clippers, the NBA announced today (via Twitter).
Brooks’ suspension was automatically triggered when he picked up his 16th technical foul of the season on Friday vs. Denver.
A player receives a one-game suspension when he compiles 16 technical fouls in a season, and then is suspended for one additional game for every two technicals he gets beyond that. For instance, Brooks would be handed another one-game ban if he gets to 18 techs before the end of the regular season. That total resets at the start of the postseason (playoff suspensions begin once a player gets to seven postseason techs).
If the NBA had decided to rescind Brooks’ 16th technical, he could have avoided a suspension, but that didn’t happen.
It’s Brooks’ second suspension of the season. He was also forced to sit out one game following an altercation with Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell.
The Grizzlies suddenly find themselves missing several key rotation players for Sunday’s contest in L.A. In addition to Brooks, Memphis will be without Ja Morant, who is away from the team amid off-court controversy, and Brandon Clarke, whose season ended when he suffered an Achilles tear on Friday.
It hasn’t exactly been a fun day to be a Grizzlies fan.
What’s next? Is JJJ going to fall down some stairs and tear his ACL? Will Bane get arrested for solicitation of a minor?
When you allow your players to do whatever they want it will catch up to you in the end. the coach needs to get his team focus on playing not doing what they want.
Head coach can’t control his team or culture.
Yes he can. That is the problem with the Grizzlies the coach never calls out his players. Like when Brooke’s broke Payton’s arm the coach tried to pretend it wasn’t a reckless play. Or when he blamed Poole for Ja’s injury knowing Ja’s knee was hurt prior to that.
My point is the head coach of this particular team apparently can’t control his players or set the culture. With that being said knucklehead, I don’t think he’s the man for the job.!!
Dude is a menace
It’d be one thing for Memphis to put up with this crap if Brooks was actually good, but the dude sucks. He has no business being in a good team’s rotation
Stop suspended players for technicals . Either call less or cut their pay and donated to something good in the world