The biggest question coming into Saturday's game was whether starting point guard George Hill would play.
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.
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.
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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