Clippers update: Just another boring day. Not.

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So much for that nice, quiet start to a new job. Neil Olshey was the Clippers’ assistant GM on Monday and became the team’s general manager on Tuesday and was dealing with a potentially explosive situation on Wednesday.

Just a disgruntled $65-million point guard, that’s all. Baron Davis told a reporter from FanHouse after the Clippers loss at Orlando on Tuesday night that he was upset he was not in the starting lineup against the Magic.

Interim coach Kim Hughes made the move when Davis missed the morning shootaround because of an upset stomach. Hughes said Davis didn’t see a doctor and pointed out that it wouldn’t have been fair to those who were on hand at the shootaround and, and besides, they needed to plan for the game.

‘I know he’s upset,’ Hughes said in a telephone interview on Wednesday afternoon with The Times. ‘He played his best game in three months. If I had to go through the season where he’s mad at me - if he plays with that energy ... I’m good with that.’

Uh, best game in three months?

‘By far--not even comparable,’ Hughes said.

Olshey was supportive of Hughes decision. He planned on speaking to Davis later on Wednesday, also saying he thought Davis played effectively off the bench and didn’t let his anger disrupt his game.

‘Kim told me what he was planning on doing,’ Olshey said in an interview on Wednesday morning from New York. ‘I don’t know what the coaching policies are when you miss a shoortaround or a practice, but I haven’t talked to Baron. I’m sure I’ll talk to him.

‘Look, Kim is the head coach and he’s going to handle his players how he sees fit. It’s Kim’s team to coach and if he felt Baron missing shootaround merited not starting him, then that’s absolutely his decision.’

Olshey spoke about his crazy last 24 hours. He was watching Seton Hall-Providence at the Big East tournament and got the phone call from the Clippers telling him of their decision to sever ties with General Manager Mike Dunleavy. Olshey spoke to owner Donald Sterling and team president Andy Roeser and then left the game.

‘I definitely didn’t go to bed last night, wondering how I was going to do this,’ he said. ‘It was more about what we’re going to do. I feel completely confident that I’m ready.’

Olshey has essentially been performing many of the general manager’s duties the last two seasons, so it’s not like the training wheels were suddenly removed on Tuesday.

He called the last two seasons ‘baptism’ by fire, adding: ‘The good news is we’re heading into the thing that is kind of my wheelhouse-the draft.’

-- Lisa Dillman