A Final Push Lifts Clippers Past Warriors : Pro basketball: Jackson sparks fourth-quarter surge to 106-98 victory. Manning is ejected after scuffle.

A blow-by-blow account of Friday night at Oakland Coliseum Arena: Chris Gatling and Danny Manning jostle for position under the boards. Gatling elbows Manning. Manning retaliates. They start swinging and get ejected with 7:18 left in the third quarter. Mark Jackson lands the crucial body shots to the Golden State Warriors during the fourth quarter.

Clippers win by a decision, 106-98.

The crowd of 15,025 got a basketball game, a 10-point, 14-assist, 11-rebound triple-double by Jackson and a fight. The first two earned the Clippers a second consecutive close victory here; the last will almost certainly earn Manning and Gatling fines and suspensions of at least one game.

Those will be handed down today because punches were landed, keeping Manning out of Sunday’s game against the Lakers at the Forum. Every game he is sidelined will cost him $31,707. Other players might also be fined for leaving the benches.

The two 6-foot-10 forwards both downplayed the scuffle, which started as they readied for a rebound with the Clippers leading, 66-63.

“Chris and I are both physical players and we want our team to win,” said Manning, who already had 20 points on eight-of-eight shooting when ejected. “We got in kind of an entanglement and it went from there. It was no big deal.”

Gatling would say only that it was a “heat of the moment thing.”

Jackson was at his best late in the fourth quarter, with drives down the lane on consecutive possessions. The second gave the Clippers a 102-96 lead with 1:19 to play.

A check before the game showed all Clippers from Thursday were still present 24 hours later, the first game since the passing of the trading deadline: Gary Grant and Loy Vaught, headed for Dallas as part of a three-team deal until the Mavericks pulled out at the last minute, and Manning, the subject of trade speculation for six weeks.

“Am I surprised to be here?” Manning said. “Not really. Then again, if I was sitting somewhere else, I would not be surprised, either.”

A few days ago, the Clippers stopped giving other teams permission to speak with Manning’s agent, Ron Grinker, to get a feel on the possibility of a contract extension. Charlotte, a team the Clippers were interested in because of Kendall Gill, was given permission, but it was rescinded before contact could be made.

But Thursday, with the NBA’s deadline looming at 6 p.m., the Clippers suddenly let at least two teams--the Hornets and Warriors--speak with Grinker. The intensity to make a deal was turned up.

This much is also known:

--The proposed trade with Golden State might have been another three-way deal, with Jim Jackson, Dallas’ lottery pick holdout, ending up with the Clippers and Manning becoming a Warrior. Before the game Friday, he opened his warm-up jacket in front of Don Nelson and flashed a Warrior T-shirt underneath.

--The Clippers and Hornets talked about a deal highlighted by Manning and Gill, but a significant snag was Charlotte’s unwillingness to part with Johnny Newman. The Clippers wanted him as insurance at forward against Ken Norman leaving next summer as a free agent.

“There are a couple of things we would like to have done,” General Manager Elgin Baylor said. “We made every effort to get something done. Believe me, it wasn’t from lack of effort. We just have to move forward.”

That first step came Friday night in a game that had playoff implications, early or not. A victory would have put Golden State within three games of the Clippers for the eighth and final postseason spot and clinched the season series for the Warriors, the first tiebreaker should the teams be tied in the standings.

Clipper Notes

John Williams, expected to return after sitting out the previous game because of a strained lower back, was instead held out because of continued stiffness. . . . Stanley Roberts, who suffered his second eye injury of the season after being poked while going for a rebound Tuesday against Sacramento, is trying goggles again. Roberts is expected to use them for the rest of the season.