Luka Doncic has been cleared to play in the Lakers‘ game on Monday against the Pistons after his technical foul against the Magic was rescinded by the league, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link).
Doncic picked up his 16th technical of the 2025/26 season in the third quarter of Saturday’s game after an exchange with Magic big man Goga Bitadze. NBA rules call for any player who accumulates 16 technicals in a season to receive an automatic one-game suspension, but both players have officially had their techs rescinded by the league, which puts Doncic’s season total at 15 games, rather than 16.
Dillon Brooks of the Suns was the first player this season to receive an automatic suspension for reaching 16 technical fouls. Draymond Green (12), Isaiah Stewart (12), Jaylen Brown (11), and Devin Booker (10) are the other players with double-digit technicals this season.
While Doncic has avoided a one-game ban for the time being, he’s not entirely out of the woods yet — a single technical foul in any of the Lakers’ final 11 games of the regular season would result in a suspension. Each player’s technical foul count resets at the start of the postseason.
Fair move by the league. Luka still has to be careful though!
NBA management WANTS Luka on the court. No surprise technical was rescinded.
Appropriate as the conduct on the court didn’t really warrant Techs. Officials just wanted them to knock it off.
Luka’s the nba’s darling
They shipped him off to lala land
And now keeping him safe and snug
Gotta make sure lakers have good seeding for deep playoff run. Silver needs to show off the ratings
How long you gonna patronize him.
Diva —
What’s said between the lines should stay between the lines in my opinion.
As I predicted on the earlier article.
The refs overreacted.
How phony is that?? Seriously I remember when Green got a T for not even saying anything to the officials. They refused to rescind it.
Green should has gotten away with a lot more techs and suspensions than Luka gets every year.
Of course they did.
Luka was so much less obnoxious as a Mavs player. Can’t blame being involved in the most obviously lopsided trade in the history of the NBA, but I’ll always be disappointed in him for signing that extension.
Yeah, who wants to live in paradise, in a beach house, and perfect weather!?