Overview
- The NBA, which rescinded the double technicals Monday from the Suns’ win over the Bulls, kept Dillon Brooks at 17 technical fouls and eligible to play Houston on Tuesday.
- Officials had issued double techs with 7:24 left in the fourth quarter Sunday on Brooks and Chicago’s Mac McClung, and the league later removed both from the record.
- Under NBA rules, a player is suspended after 16 technical fouls and then for every two more, so an 18th tech would have triggered a one-game ban that Brooks already served at 16 earlier this season.
- Phoenix sits seventh at 43–35 with four games left and trails Minnesota by three games for the final automatic playoff berth, making player availability central to seeding.
- Brooks recently returned from a fractured left hand after missing significant time and is posting a career-best scoring average around 20 points per game, while the NBA did not explain why it overturned the call.