Odd incident in L.A.

Houston’s Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green were both suspended for two games Wednesday after entering the Los Angeles Clippers’ locker room to confront a Clippers player after Monday’s game.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was asked in London last week about fining misbehaving players, and even he acknowledged the penalties aren’t much of a deterrent.

“More symbolic than anything,” Silver said.

It might be time for the league to change that.

At least based on what’s happened in the NBA the past couple days.

Houston’s Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green were both suspended for two games on Wednesday for entering the Los Angeles Clippers’ locker room after Monday’s game to confront another player.

Ariza had been ejected from the game in the final moments, as was the Clippers’ Blake Griffin.

That postgame lockerroom incident on Monday — the holiday celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., no less — was a bad look for the league, as was the wild swing that Orlando’s Arron Afflalo threw at Minnesota’s Nemanja Bjelica on Tuesday.

The James Johnson-Serge Ibaka dust-up during the Miami-Toronto game last week earned those players one-game suspensions that cost them a total of about $300,000. Utah’s Rodney Hood might have been lucky to have been fined only $35,000 for slapping a phone out of a fan’s hand. Ben Simmons and Kyle Lowry were probably smart to just talk about taking their differences outside, and not actually go that route.

But the Clippers-Rockets circus, whatever it was, has to be of major concern to the league.

Players are upset with referees, and that airing of grievances will be aired officially in meetings with the league at All-Star weekend. Whatever the players say in Los Angeles might seem less credible now, especially after the last few days. Further complicating matters is that Rockets star Chris Paul — who is president of the National Basketball Players Association — recently called out referee Scott Foster, plus allegedly had a role in the postgame events Monday.

It’s a tough spot for the NBA.

It’s also not a time for anything symbolic. Silver is a player-friendly commissioner, but that doesn’t mean the NBA can’t show some teeth.

RAINING 3S

Chicago’s Lauri Markkanen got to 100 3-pointers made faster than any rookie in NBA history, needing only 41 games to get there.

Reminder: He’s a 7-footer.

Dirk Nowitzki’s singleseason record of 3s by a 7-footer has stood since 2000-01, when he made 151. Markkanen is on pace to smash that mark, as the trend of 7-footers having crazy range continues.

So far this season, 28 players listed at 7-foot or taller have made at least one 3-pointer. That’s already a record, topping the 22 7-footers who made one last season. Also, 7-footers combined to make 1,100 3-pointers last season — and the pace this season is closer to 1,500.

There have been more 3s made by 7-footers in the last two seasons than there were in the first 28 seasons of the 3-point shot combined.

REMEMBERING JO JO

The Celtics announced the death Tuesday of legendary guard Jo Jo White, a seventime All-Star, two-time NBA champion, the MVP of the 1976 NBA Finals and an Olympic gold medalist. He was 71.

“We are terribly saddened by the passing of the great Jo Jo White,” the Celtics said. “He was a champion and a gentleman; supremely talented and brilliant on the court, and endlessly gracious off of it.”

White went into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.