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ALL-STAR STATUS: WILL LUKA DONčIć ACTUALLY SUIT UP FOR THE WORLD TEAM ON SUNDAY
Luka Dončić and DeAndre Ayton are OUT for the Lakers tonight. Analyse the impact on Luka’s MVP eligibility and the 2026 All-Star Game.
JJ Redick didn’t hide his frustration after the Lakers picked up another foul. Honestly, you can’t blame him; the team’s running on fumes.
Thursday night, the Lakers face the Mavericks at home, wrapping things up before the All-Star break. But they’ll do it shorthanded. Luka Dončić is still out with that stubborn left calf strain. Deandre Ayton? Also sitting, thanks to a sore knee.
Missing both guys at this point in the season? That’s rough. Dončić drives the offence; Ayton holds down the paint. Now Redick’s got to juggle minutes and shuffle roles just to keep things afloat heading into the break.
Ayton’s situation hasn’t really improved. He tweaked his knee last weekend and, since then, has barely played, making just one short appearance in the last four games. He did return on Monday, put in 29 minutes, but looked off. He scored just six points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and you could tell he wasn’t right.
Redick said after the Warriors game, “He went out for his shooting stretch and just didn’t feel completely comfortable with it. I don’t think there’s any reason to believe it’s anything but day-to-day.” So, they’re playing it safe. Ayton will sit for the third time in four games. So far this season, he’s averaging 13.2 points, 8.5 rebounds, and a block per night. He signed on with the Lakers last summer—two years, $16.2 million, with a player option for year two after leaving Portland.
Dončić’s absence stings for a different reason. With this being his fourth straight missed game (and 12th overall this season), he’s barely holding on to eligibility for those end-of-year awards. The NBA says you’ve got to play at least 65 games for MVP or All-NBA honours, so Dončić can only skip five more games the rest of the way. Out of 28 games left after the break, he needs to play in at least 23 to stay in the running.
Last year, he missed too much time, just 50 games split between Dallas and LA, again because of that calf, and fell short of All-NBA. Before that, he made five straight All-NBA First Teams, the youngest ever to do it. In 2024, he joined a pretty exclusive club, becoming just the fourth guy to lock in five First Team spots within his first six seasons.
In the MVP chase, Dončić sat at No. 2 before the break, just behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. He’d actually passed Nikola Jokić earlier, but now this injury threatens to slow him down again. The Lakers haven’t ruled him out for Sunday’s All-Star Game, so there’s hope he returns for next week’s game against the Clippers.
With Dončić and Ayton both out, the Lakers are leaning hard on LeBron James and Austin Reaves. LeBron, who rested Tuesday against the Spurs, should be back in the lineup. Reaves is still ramping up after missing 19 games with his own calf injury, but he’s been solid with 20.5 points, 4.5 assists, and 4.3 rebounds in just under 25 minutes a night since he returned.
So, just one more game where LeBron and Reaves have to do the heavy lifting. The Lakers are crossing their fingers that the All-Star break gives everybody a chance to heal up before the season’s final push.
HAMMER DROPPED: DILLON BROOKS SUSPENDED BY NBA AFTER HITTING 16TH TECHNICAL FOUL LIMIT
Dillon Brooks hits the 16-technical foul limit! Discover the cost of his suspension and how it affects the Phoenix Suns' season.
Dillon Brooks just picked up a one-game suspension from the NBA; his 16th technical foul of the season finally caught up with him. If you’ve followed Brooks at all, this probably doesn’t surprise you. The guy’s known for playing right up to the edge, stirring things up on the court, and, honestly, not backing down from anyone. This latest tech happened in the third quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder, after a run-in with referee James Williams. That was all the NBA needed to drop the hammer.
The league released a pretty standard statement: “Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been suspended one game without pay for receiving his 16th technical foul of the 2025-26 season,” signed off by James Jones, who runs basketball ops for the Suns. Because of the suspension, Brooks will lose a chunk of change, $121,403, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks.
After the game, Brooks sounded tired of the whole thing. “I had a ref tell me that I play the victim, so I ain’t talking no more about that,” he told reporters. “Yeah. He said I’m playing victim all the time. And when I don’t play victim, I’m the bad guy.” When pressed, Brooks didn’t hold back. “If you’re going to be consistently bad, then be consistently bad throughout the whole game. Don’t try to fix it during the game. Don’t try to even out foul calls or whatever it may be. If you’re going to be bad, be bad the whole game.”
The NBA isn’t budging on this one. Brooks will sit out the Suns’ first game after the All-Star break. Hitting 16 technicals in a season triggers an automatic one-game suspension. And it doesn’t stop there; every two more technicals means another game on the bench, no pay.
Brooks is actually having a career year in Phoenix, averaging 21.2 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.8 assists, shooting 44.1% from the field, 34.3% from three, and 85.6% from the line. But now, with this suspension hanging over him, he’ll have to rein it in if he wants to stay on the court.
This season’s been wild with NBA suspensions, not just Brooks. The massive brawl between the Pistons and Hornets stands out. Four players got tossed and then suspended: Isaiah Stewart (aka Beef Stew) and Jalen Duren for Detroit, and Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate for Charlotte. Stewart got seven games for charging off the bench and into the fight. Duren, who just made his first All-Star team, got two games but will still play in the All-Star Game. Bridges and Diabate each got four games for “fighting and escalating the altercation”, per the league.
And that’s not all. Jaxson Hayes of the Lakers got suspended for a game after shoving a mascot. Yes, really. He apologised but still had to sit. Rudy Gobert picked up a one-game ban for racking up too many flagrant fouls. Dennis Schroder, back when he was with Sacramento, drew a three-game suspension for a post-game incident with Luka Donci, who he reportedly tried to take a swing at in the arena tunnel. Jose Alvarado and Mark Williams both got two games for fighting earlier in the year.
Then there’s Paul George, who got hit with a whopping 25-game suspension for violating the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program. That’s the longest one in recent memory.
As for who’s next in the technical foul race, Luka Doncic has 13, Stewart has 12, and Draymond Green sits at 11. If any of them hit 16, expect a similar one-game vacation from the league.
MVG MASTERCLASS: MICHAEL VAN GERWEN KNOCKS OUT LUKE LITTLER TO REACH ANTWERP FINAL TODAY
Michael van Gerwen is back! Read how he defeated Luke Littler in Antwerp to secure his second straight Premier League final.
Michael van Gerwen is looking like his old self again. He just knocked Luke Littler out of night two at Premier League Darts and did it in style.
Littler, who’s only 19, picked up his first win of the Premier League season on Thursday; he edged out his long-time rival Luke Humphries in a wild match in Antwerp. But that run didn’t last. In the semi-finals, he ran straight into a fired-up Van Gerwen.
Last year was rough for Van Gerwen, no way around it. But now? He’s come roaring back. He won the opening night in Newcastle and just added Littler’s name to his growing list of big wins.
Fans loved it. “That was a quality performance from Van Gerwen! “Back-to-back finals for MVG,” someone posted online. Another said, “If this version of Van Gerwen is here to stay, darts are going to be in a better place by the end of 2026!” The excitement kept rolling—"Darts is always better when MVG plays like this,” one fan wrote. And then: “He is so back. This is his year!” Someone else just put it simply: “MVG is so back, and you love to see it!”
Even on Sky Sports, Dan Dawson couldn’t help himself: “Michael van Gerwen is in back-to-back finals to start this year’s Premier League. The Green Machine sees off The Nuke.”
Littler’s stuck at just two points from the first two weeks, while Van Gerwen could walk away with two weekly wins already.
Now Van Gerwen waits to see if he’ll face Johnny Clayton or Gerwyn Price in the final in Belgium. Both Welshmen got there by beating Stephen Bunting and Gian van Veen.
Littler, on the other hand, really needs a deep run next Thursday in Glasgow to get his campaign back on track. Two points in two weeks just isn’t enough.
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