If all goes well today, Raef LaFrentz will get his first action in six games after being out with right knee tendinitis.

``He practiced full-out,'' Jim O'Brien said after the holiday session in preparation for the Celtics' home-and-home series with Milwaukee. ``We'll probably sit him out of shootaround (today) and play him (tonight).''

Celtics forward/center Raef LaFrentz has responded well to medication for his tendinitis in his right knee and should be able to return to the lineup on Friday.

"If it goes according to plan," O'Brien said, "he will practice with us on Thanksgiving and try to be ready for Friday. That was not the case yesterday."

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BOSTON (AP) The Boston Celtics placed center Raef LaFrentz on the injured list Friday with right knee tendinitis.

LaFrentz has appeared in all eight of the Celtics' games, averaging of 8.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in 22.3 minutes of play.

LaFrentz will miss a minimum of five games, with his earliest return date Nov. 26.

The Celtics also activated rookie center Kendrick Perkins from the injured list. He's been out with tendinitis in both knees.

WASHINGTON (AP) Allen Iverson had a season-high 40 points Tuesday night, winning a scoring duel with Gilbert Arenas and leading Philadelphia to a 112-105 victory over Washington.

Arenas scored a season-high 36 points in a game featuring two of the most exciting guards in the Eastern Conference.

Iverson had more than his share of misses _ 12-for-29 from the field _ but he never stopped shooting, and made 14 of 18 free throws. The 76ers went 24-for-26 from the line in the second half.

Arenas was 11-for-24 from the field, but was just 3-of-11 in the second half and fouled out in the final seconds.

The 76ers played without starters Glenn Robinson (sprained ankle) and Kenny Thomas (bruised back), and Derrick Coleman didn't play the second half because of the strained left knee.

Celtics 78, Pacers 76

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Vin Baker hit a fallaway jumper in the lane with 20 seconds left to lift Boston past Indiana.

Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 19 points, nine assists and six rebounds, and Baker had 12 points and four rebounds.

Jermaine O'Neal had 25 points and 11 rebounds for Indiana. The Pacers lost for the first time in six games to drop to 6-2.

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"Eric Williams will be out of action, by his estimation, another 5-10 days with swelling in the back of his right knee."

The Celtics' depth may be getting a test over the next week or so as Eric Williams tends to his hyperextended right knee. The key backup forward initially suffered the injury in the season-opener Wednesday and aggravated it in Friday's win at Memphis.