LOS ANGELES (AP) Clippers guard Quentin Richardson was placed on the injured list Sunday because of back spasms.

He hurt his back March 7 against Portland and has missed five of the last six games.

The 6-foot-4 guard is averaging a career-high 17.7 points and 6.4 rebounds this season.

Marko Jaric probably has played his last game for the Clippers this season because of a stress fracture in his left foot, the Serb point guard said Friday, adding that he might also sit out the Olympics this summer to avoid further injury.

Jaric has not played since March 7, when he complained of soreness in his foot during the closing minutes of a 91-71 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Tests this week showed the fracture

Jaric, 25, suffered a similar injury in his right foot last summer and has been bothered by other foot ailments that he believes are the result of playing competitive basketball year-round since he was 18, professionally in the winter and internationally in the summer.

That's why he might forgo the Olympics, though he knows such a move would be met unfavorably back home in Serbia and Montenegro.

"It's a very tough decision," Jaric acknowledged, "because you know how the Olympics are big and everybody wants to be part of the event, especially playing for my national team; it's a great honor.

"But also I need to think about my career. This is like the fourth year in a row [where] basically the first two months of the season, I'm playing terrible because I'm missing my energy, I've got injuries.

"I start thinking about my career, and maybe ? for the first time in my life I come ready to get off to a good start from the first day of training camp and be ready to compete with the best point guards in the league."

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) The Los Angeles Clippers activated guard Doug Overton prior to Friday night's game against the Memphis Grizzlies and placed guard Marko Jaric on the injured list.

Jaric, who has missed the last two games, has a deep bone bruise on his left foot. He has started 50 of the 58 games he's played this season and averages 8.5 points and 4.8 assists.

Overton, in his 11th season out of LaSalle, was placed on the injured list Feb. 21 with a sprained left ankle. He is averaging 3.6 points and 2.2 assists since signing with the Clippers as a free agent in November.