Looks like Sebastian Telfair and Craig Smith have played their final games of the season as the Wolves prepare to get this thing over with their final two games, tonight at Detroit and Wednesday at home against Milwaukee in the finale.

Telfair never played again after he sprained his ankle at Sacramento on March 7, an injury that apparently was as bad as it looked (video of the gruesome footage was up on youtube within hours).

Wolves coach Randy Wittman said that absence shouldn’t affect the Wolves’ consideration this summer when they decide which of five restricted free agents they will bring back. Telfair is one of them.

“I would have liked to have seen him and Randy play more together,” Wittman said, referring to guard Randy Foye, “but you can’t do anything about those things. Sebastian played well. He moved in a positive direction from where he was before th eseasno and I think he learned a lot about how to play in this league. He’s made the right steps to show he can play point guard in this league, absolutely he has.”

Smith will miss his third consecutive game tonight with a collarbone/breastbone injury he sustained in Wednesday’s home loss at New Orleans. “Let it heal,” he said of the decision not to return for games that are mostly meaningless except for their draft lottery implications.

Pistons coach Flip Saunders said before the game that he will play all his regulars — he sat Rasheed Wallace, Rip Hamilton and Chauncey Billups down for the game at Target Center 15 days ago and still his reserve players brought the Pistons back to win — but don’t except any of those guys to play more than 25 minutes.

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