Gentry declined to talk about the two technical fouls he received, which carried an immediate ejection. However, it was clear that he and the rest of the Clippers were frustrated at the disparity in fouls. The Celtics shot 30 free throws, the Clippers attempted 14. Missing five free throws also did not help the Clippers' cause.

"We were up five so we definitely should have pulled this one out," Brand said. "But we had turnovers and they (officials) didn't call fouls even though we were definitely hit. But it goes that way and it's real disappointing."

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"I think he's a typical 20-year-old kid trying to play in the NBA," Gentry said. "He's trying to get better. He spends time now working on his game.

"It's part of the growth of any young player. We went through the same things with Darius [Miles]. He made mistakes and we put him out there and lived with his mistakes."

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The Clippers (18-34) held an 82-78 lead with 2:35 to play after the last of Cherokee Parks' 14 points. But J.R. Bremer and Paul Pierce each made two free throws to rally the Celtics into an 82-82 tie moments later.

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Team trainer Jasen Powell said the 4-6 week prognosis for Olowokandi's recovery still holds true. Powell said he believes it will be closer to six weeks before the center can play.

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The Clippers have activated forward Cherokee Parks and placed center Wang Zhizhi (pronounced wong ZHOU-ZHOU) on the injured list with lower back spasms.

Parks has missed the last five games due to back spasms. He has appeared in eight games this season, averaging 2.0 points and 1.8 rebounds in 9.3 minutes per game. Parks will be in uniform for Saturday night’s home game with Boston.

Wang is averaging 3.8 points and 1.7 rebounds in 23 games this season.

"He did not charge toward me,'' the coach said Thursday. "I was on the court talking with D.J., Doug and Patrick when (Oakley) said something to the effect that it was their time to be on the court and to get the (expletive) off. D.J. and Patrick stepped in front of him, but no one grabbed him and he didn't have to be restrained.''

After the incident, Gentry called Stu Jackson, the NBA's vice president of basketball operations. Jackson, who is in charge of league discipline, made his ruling Wednesday night.

Oakley declined comment Wednesday. On Thursday he said, "Didn't nothing happen. If something happened, I probably wouldn't have played last night.''

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"We're spending too much time making the next scoring pass,'' Gentry said. "What we have to do is to find the open guy, and hit him. I told (Odom) that has to be almost like hockey where you might make the pass that leads to the (scoring) pass. You won't get an assist for that, like in hockey, but it's what we have to do.''

Odom played a solid game Wednesday with 19 points, six rebounds, three assists and only one turnover in 34 minutes.

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But they're still the Clippers.

Before Wednesday night's game, the Clippers had the seventh-worst record in the league, which would give them 44 of 1,001 ping-pong balls in the May 18 draft lottery and a 4.4% chance of landing the Akron (Ohio) high school whiz kid.

Frankly, they need to lose more.

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According to the suit, Sterling said he "did not like Hispanics or blacks as tenants" and that "Hispanics smoke, drink and just hang around the building."

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The incident happened as the Clippers were leaving the court and the Wizards were taking it for a workout several hours before Washington's 108-104 victory Wednesday night in front of an arena-record crowd of 20,578.

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Richardson said he was inundated with questions about what was wrong with the Clippers.

"The biggest disappointment to me is not that we're losing, because we lost the first two years that I was here,'' Richardson said. "But we had never really gotten booed by our fans. Our fans loved us. They loved the way we played hard and that we were exciting and it looked like we were having fun. But now, every game we play, it seems like we're down 20 points. I'm sure they're frustrated. This was supposed to be their big year when we were going to make the playoffs. And now that it looks like it's not going to happen, they have a right to be dissatisfied because they've come up from the bottom with us.''

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"Obviously, the approach has got to be that we've got to look at the last 35 games or 34 games or what is it?" Gentry started to say Monday. When told the Clippers had 33 games remaining, he continued, "Thirty-three? That's even better. We've got to look at it like it's a whole new season. It's been disappointing up to this point playing like we have."

Asked if he were concerned that the Clippers would mail in the rest of the season, Gentry said, "I don't think this team is like that. We haven't played well, but we have played hard. We've just made poor decisions and haven't made shots."

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