Until the end of the season, every other technical foul called on Rasheed Wallace will result in an automatic one-game suspension.


"It don't affect me," Wallace said after practice Monday. "I can't sit up there and think about that. I'm out there playing. I've just got to play. ? I still have to have that fire under that pot."

Wallace, who returns to the lineup on Tuesday after missing Sunday's victory over the Clippers, dismissed the notion he could try to quiet his behavior.

"It don't matter what I do," he said. "I got a tech for looking at an official. I got a tech for laughing. I got a tech for saying, 'Ball don't lie.' I got a tech for shaking my head. I got a tech for saying, 'Bad call.' It don't matter what I do. I could walk away from a guy like I did with (referee) Jack Nies -- I walked away from him, and he still gave me a tech."