LOS ANGELES >> The Los Angeles Clippers were on the outside looking in on draft day.

This was the first time in the 45-year history of the franchise that the Clippers did not have a pick in any round of the NBA draft, and the fifth time they didn’t have a first-round selection since relocating from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984.

The Clippers’ first-round pick in Thursday’s draft (28th overall) went to Boston as a condition of Doc Rivers’ agreement to join the Clippers in June 2013 as head coach after nine seasons as Celtics coach, which included an NBA championship in 2008. Their second-round pick (57th overall) went to Denver to complete a 2009 trade for center Cheikh Samb — who played in only 10 games for them and hasn’t appeared in an NBA game since March 20, 2009, with the New York Knicks.

The Clippers, who were bounced from the Western Conference semifinals by the Houston Rockets in seven games after leading the series 3-1, didn’t make a trade to get pick in a year when the Staples Center co-tenants, the Lakers, had the second overall pick — their highest since 1982.

But Rivers, who also is the team’s president of basketball operations, had more important things on his mind Thursday. He had just returned to Los Angeles from Maywood, Illinois, after attending the funeral for his mother. Bettye Rivers died on June 19 after a lengthy illness.

Among the college players the Clippers have had work out for them at their Playa Vista practice facility were Cal’s David Kravish, Texas-El Paso’s Julian Washburn, Duke’s Quinn Cook, Connecticut’s Ryan Boatright, Iowa’s Aaron White and Virginia Commonwealth’s Treveon Graham. Free agent contracts can officially be tendered starting on July 1.

The Clippers’ highest priority at the moment is re-signing free-agent center DeAndre Jordan to a max contract of five years, which is one year more than other teams can offer him. Four years ago, they re-signed Jordan after matching an offer sheet by the Golden State Warriors that was worth approximately $42.7 million.

On June 15, the Clippers acquired Lance Stephenson in a trade with the Charlotte Hornets for Spencer Hawes and Matt Barnes, who was subsequently dealt to the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday.