Clippers running out of options at guard

This isn’t the way Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro planned it. If there was one place his team was deep it was at guard, where he opened the season with former all-star Baron Davis, high-scoring Eric Gordon, swingman Rasual Butler, precocious rookie Eric Bledsoe and veteran Randy Foye.

Five weeks into the regular season, however, only Butler has been untouched by injury, leaving Del Negro one injury shy of holding opening auditions for someone to bring the ball up the court.

“There’s no question we need some help,” Del Negro said Saturday. “But you can’t control the injuries. It’s just part of the game.”

Bledsoe was the latest to go down, sustaining a high ankle sprain in the first half of Friday’s loss to Phoenix. He underwent therapy Saturday, and his availability for Sunday’s game against Utah won’t be known until just before tipoff.

But if Bledsoe can’t start, Del Negro doesn’t have many options on his active roster since Davis remains out indefinitely with a knee injury and Foye is still limited by a hamstring problem. As a result, rookie Willie Warren matched a career high by playing 17 minutes against the Suns and could see more time Sunday.

“We’ve just got to see who’s healthy tomorrow and then put the game plan together as we see fit,” Del Negro said.

Secret weapon

Blake Griffin may be getting most of the love from the national media — as well as the Twitter shout-outs from fellow NBA players LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal — but it’s Gordon, another former first-round draft pick, who is leading the Clippers offense, averaging better than 27 points a game over the last three weeks.

And he says he has no problem with the lack of attention.

“Ever since I’ve been in the league I’ve been under the radar,” said Gordon, a third-year pro who entered Saturday ranked seventh in the league in scoring average at 24.5. “So I’m going to keep on doing the things I need to do. I know what I’m capable of. I don’t really need that much attention.”

Besides, there are advantages to toiling in anonymity. With Griffin drawing the focus of both opponents and their fans, Gordon has the freedom to go about his business in peace. Which isn’t to say he wants to remain unnoticed.

“Anybody would like that attention, of course,” he said with a smile. “But it just is what it is. Whoever gets it, get it.”

Day off

The exhausted Clippers, coming off a streak in which they played six games in four cities in 10 days, did not hold an organized workout Saturday, limiting their practice to a film session at their facility in Playa Vista.

“We’re really not that tired,” said Gordon, who has played at least 37 minutes in five of the Clippers’ last six games. “We just need to [bear] down and start winning some games. We’re right there.”

kevin.baxter@latimes.com