Clippers Show the Sprain : Pro basketball: Injuries, fouls take their toll during a 109-105 loss to the Heat.

First, the Clipper injury update. Gary Grant and Kiki Vandeweghe were in Los Angeles, with a sprained right ankle and a strained Achilles’ tendon, respectively. Stanley Roberts then suffered a sprained right ankle on the opening jump ball, Danny Manning suffered a sprained left ankle during the first quarter and Ron Harper bruised his right shoulder during the fourth quarter.

Now, the mental report. The Clippers are a sprained team, falling to 29-28 by losing Friday night to the 23-32 Miami Heat, 109-105, before 15,008 at Miami Arena while failing to score in the final 1:01.

Starting the game with 10 players, seeing two more foul out and playing hurt, the Clippers ran out of bodies. And so much more.

“We ran out of everything tonight,” said Harper, who had 20 points and 12 rebounds. “We ran out of enough shots and of enough rebounds.”

Added Coach Larry Brown: “We haven’t made a shot we’ve needed in the last minute of a game in a long, long time. The only one I can remember was Gary.”

That was Jan. 2, when Grant’s baseline jumper in the closing seconds beat New York in overtime, one of only four Knick losses this season at Madison Square Garden.

Friday night, the Clippers trailed, 105-101, with 1 1/2 minutes to play, but pulled even after a basket by Manning and two free throws by Mark Jackson, the latter with 1:02 remaining. Rony Seikaly got the winning points when he made two free throws with 45 seconds left, especially frustrating for Brown in that the foul came with Loy Vaught bumping Seikaly from behind on a double team and not on a shot by Seikaly.

The Clippers’ attempt to respond was Manning slashing through the lane, but his shot missed. The Heat then got Steve Smith’s nine-foot basket to make the score 109-105 with 11.3 seconds to go.

In the end, after Vaught and Roberts fouled out, the Clippers had eight players. Two of those were Manning and Harper and two others were seldom-used rookies Elmore Spencer and Randy Woods.

So how are the Clippers hurting?

--The record. They have lost three of four and seven of 12.

--Roberts. His was the most serious of the injuries, requiring X-rays, not to mention the most bizarre: he landed on Seikaly’s foot after jumping for the opening tap.

Roberts stayed in for the first 3:25, then went to the locker room. Given the choice of returning or staying out to rest the ankle for his return to Orlando on Sunday, he decided to play with the pain and made it back late in the third quarter. He played most of the rest of the way before fouling out with 1:38 to go, finishing with 15 minutes.

His status is day to day.

--Manning. Also day to day. His injury also was the result of landing on someone’s foot after driving to the basket. He played 37 minutes and finished with a game-high 32 points.

“You could feel it, but in the heat of the battle I tried not to worry about it,” Manning said. “This is not going to slow me down. I’m just going to treat it and keep going.”

Clipper Notes

The Clippers are 3-8 lifetime against the Heat. . . . Miami’s Rony Seikaly, coming off a 34-rebound game Wednesday against Washington, had 22 rebounds. “They’re a big, tough, huge team,” Seikaly said of the Clippers. “It’s not as easy getting 20-plus rebounds against these guys as it is against the Bullets, who were without Pervis (Ellison).” His per-game average increased from 10.6 to 11.3 off the last two games. . . . The Heat has won five in a row, a franchise record, and has seven consecutive victories at home.