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Lakers Get Something Extra : Pro basketball: Campbell’s only basket of the game with less than a second to play in the second overtime beats the Clippers, 116-114.

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

Elden Campbell, in his first game back from the disabled list, made a 10-foot turnaround baseline shot at the buzzer to give the Lakers a 116-114 double-overtime victory over the Clippers at the Forum on Tuesday night.

It was Campbell’s only basket of the game. Vlade Divac had 23 points and a career-high 24 rebounds for the Lakers. Ron Harper led the Clippers with 32 points and 10 rebounds.

Neither team led by more than eight points all night, and any advantage was usually closer to three or four. It was a three-point game when Mark Jackson got free on the left perimeter for a shot with 21 seconds left that gave the Clippers a 99-96 lead.

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The Lakers called timeout, then got to the line when Mark Aguirre fouled James Worthy with 24 seconds to go. Worthy made the first and missed the second, only to have the rebound bounce high off the rim. All was not lost, not when Nick Van Exel, the 6-foot-1 guard, got the rebound. He called another timeout.

Anthony Peeler converted that unexpected opportunity, making a shot from the right side with 13 seconds remaining for a 99-99 score. When the Clippers, after a timeout of their own, failed to score on their final possession of regulation, the rebound by Van Exel and subsequent basket by Peeler became the points that lifted the Lakers into overtime.

Once there, the Clippers grabbed the lead on Jackson’s three-point basket with 3:27 left and appeared in control as late as 107-102 with 43 seconds left. But Divac’s wide-open three-pointer along the left baseline with 1.9 seconds to go changed that, sending an apparent Laker loss into at least a second overtime.

The Lakers had their entire team, finally. Although Trevor Wilson joined Kurt Rambis on the injured list Tuesday, clearing the roster spot for Campbell, this marked the first time all season the projected core of the squad was available on the same night, including exhibition play.

Wilson, a starter the first five game before not playing Sunday, fell victim to the numbers game more than any tendinitis in his right Achilles’ heel, much as Rambis got tendinitis of the left knee when Peeler was able to return. Unlike Peeler, though, Campbell did not move right into the opening lineup for his debut, Coach Randy Pfund instead sticking with his two-center attack, Divac and Sam Bowie.

“I’ll say this,” Pfund said. “I’d like to get Elden in there for a few games and make sure he’s healthy. That would make me feel better.”

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The Clippers, meanwhile, took the first step in a major roster switch of their own, playing the first of at least five games without Danny Manning, on the injured list because of a cracked ring finger. Ron Harper again moved up to take his spot at small forward, with Gary Grant opening at guard.

“We have to learn how to play without him,” Harper said. “We might not have him for a while. We’ve got some guys here who like to play, and we’re just going to play hard.”

Both teams had additional injury concerns before the end of the first half.

The Lakers lost Bowie because of a concussion after he got tangled with Clipper Bob Martin under the backboard with 6:31 left in the first quarter, resulting in a nasty fall. Bowie was taken to Centinela Hospital Medical Center for additional tests and observation and was scheduled to stay overnight.

The Clippers lost one of their big men, Stanley Roberts, in the second quarter. He turned his left ankle again, an injury first suffered two games earlier, and had the joint re-taped. When it continued to bother him, he went to the locker room with eight minutes left before halftime, though it felt good enough to start the third quarter.

The Lakers led most of the first half. The only time they fell behind after 17-15 was at 52-51 on Harper’s three-pointer with 51 seconds left before halftime, and the Lakers went back ahead on the ensuing possession when Nick Van Exel answered with a three-pointer.

That made the score 54-52. But when Mark Jackson made both free throws with 2.3 seconds to go, the Clippers pulled back into at least a tie, thanks in large part to their shooting 51.2% that half compared to 38.2% for the Lakers.

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Harper was only warming up. Having began the night only one of seven on three-pointers, he made two more early in the third period while Jackson added another. That gave Harper 21 points heading into the fourth quarter, with the score tied at 77.

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