Technically Excellent News for the Pistons

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The Dodger(s) has been worrying about Rasheed's technicals, especially after he got T'd up for smiling at the ref [although who knows what he had said before.] The Dodger(s) has thought that there would be one game suspension for every T after 15, right down to the end and into the playoffs. ESPN gives us some good news:

Sheed is not nearly as volatile as he was in his Blazer days, when 40-something technicals were the norm, but the league didn't have a policy in place to suspend guys for racking up T's back then. The good news? Three of 'Sheed's 15 T's this season have been rescinded by the league, meaning he's four away from a one-game suspension instead of one away. (Don't forget that this is the first season in which players are suspended for one game after their 16th, 18th, 20th technicals and so on.)

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His slate is wiped clean before the postseason, when players aren't suspended until the seventh technical. If 'Sheed accrues five T's in the playoffs, he'll get a warning letter.