<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In the latest blow to the Clippers' playoff hopes, Marko Jaric returned to Los Angeles on Sunday for further tests and a more definitive evaluation of his sore right foot, one day after Kerry Kittles flew back to seek treatment for a degenerative disk in his lower back. Jaric and Kittles were projected to be the Clippers' starting guards, but because of injuries Jaric has sat out 18 of the team's 51 games, Kittles 40. They have played together in five games, none since December. Jaric was reactivated last month after sitting out 17 games because of a stress fracture in his right foot. He said he started experiencing pain in a different part of the foot during a Feb. 6 loss at Philadelphia but continued to play until it grew so intense in Friday's loss at Washington that he asked to be taken out</div> Source