#1. 41 Technical Fouls in a Season - Rasheed Wallace
This isn't the most exciting record to top the list, but it is completely unbreakable. Rasheed Wallace was known for his fiery temper, and he became the NBA's most notorious technical foul receiver of all time.
Wallace, starting power forward for the 2004 champion Detroit Pistons, averaged a technical foul every other game in 2000-01 to finish the season with a total of 41. Wallace famously got ejected from a game for simply staring at the official, which he declared was an intimidation tactic by Wallace for which he wouldn't stand.
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While the NBA has its fair share of guys with short tempers who seem to love racking up tech fouls (Dwight Howard, DeMarcus Cousins, Draymond Green, Rudy Gobert, Kevin Durant etc.) none of them will ever come close to breaking this record.
The NBA under David Stern's leadership implemented a rule that would see players suspended following their 16th technical foul in a single season. A few players have reached that mark and been forced to serve suspensions, but the rule has kept players from ever approaching Sheed's record of 41.
This record truly will live forever as the league has come a long way in limiting technical fouls and improving player-referee relations to a point where technical fouls are a rarer occurrance.
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