The latest is starting guard Eli Carter, who broke his leg late in the season.
Nets starting guard Joe Johnson, who has a sore left heel, went through warm-ups but was ruled out at game-time, missing his third straight game.
John Vallely, a starting guard on UCLA's 1969 and 1970 championship teams, now literally makes his living by imparting the wisdom of Bruin coach John Wooden.
But even if forced to play without starting guard Pablo Prigioni, who sprained his ankle in the regular-season finale, the Knicks believe they're stronger than their teams Boston had been beating up on for years, especially knowing they get to start at Madison Square Garden.
But Thursday night, Popovich and the Spurs stuck it to the NBA and commissioner David Stern by having its three stars, Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, plus starting guard Danny Green sent home to San Antonio to rest, while the remaining Spurs faced off against the Miami Heat in a nationally televised game from Miami.
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The biggest question coming into Saturday's game was whether starting point guard George Hill would play.
Starting shooting guard Rip Hamilton, for instance, has missed 38 games because of ailments.
Backup center Baye Moussa Keita (47) and starting point guard Michael Carter-Williams (45) lead the way.
Davis, of course, was once thought to be the no-brainer choice at starting point guard once he was healthy.
The Rockets played without starting point guard Jeremy Lin for the second straight game because of a bruised chest muscle.
It was a comeback game for Douglas, who was basically a non-entity for most of the season since losing his starting point guard job in February.
Enter Lin, 23, the newly installed starting point guard for the New York Knicks, who is leading the NBA on a strange, one-man, one-week basketball revival.
Fellow Knicks forward Rasheed Wallace (stress reaction in left foot), starting point guard Raymond Felton (fractured right pinkie) and Iman Shumpert (recovering from torn ACL) all remain out with injuries.
He is now the Knicks' starting point guard, leading them to two straight wins and scoring 25 and 28 points, respectively, this after topping 10 points just twice in a two-year career.
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Aside from their dismal shooting through that point, the Pacers, they also suffered an enormous blow just hours before Thursday's tip-off, when they learned that starting point guard George Hill who had lit the Knicks up for 26 points in the pivotal Game 4 would miss Thursday's matchup with a concussion he sustained two days earlier.
The Kentucky National Guard is starting to notify people who've already received the (meal kits) or might be getting one.
After struggling in the league his first two seasons, with character concerns causing doubts about his ability to succeed, Stephenson quieted critics when he stepped into a starting role after shooting guard Danny Granger went down with an injury this season.
Nate Robinson had 20 points and eight assists starting in place of point guard Kirk Hinrich, who bruised his left calf in Saturday's game.
Our security correspondent says Western governments think it is strange that at such a critical time - when his Republican Guard units are starting to get engaged, when his people are getting pounded by bombs - Saddam Hussein got his information minister to deliver his latest speech.
Notes: The Raptors made a late change to the starting lineup, inserting former Knicks guard Landry Fields so he could defend Anthony.
More than 12, 000 National Guard troops will be heading to Iraq starting in December, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Galloway, a 6-3 guard and the Explorers' lone senior on the starting five, played the entire 20 minutes of the first half and drilled 5 of 8 3-pointers while scoring 19 points.
The Republican Old Guard (or, really, the Republican Sunday Show Starting Lineup) is proving itself incapable of dealing with Rand Paul and his supporters, in large measure because the ontological enclosure of the likes of McCain and Graham is so complete.
Calderon and Davis had both been starting for the Raptors, but they do have Kyle Lowry waiting in the wings at point guard and likely see Gay's scoring punch as the key to vaulting back into the discussion in a mediocre conference.
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