With just a few days left in the NBA's regular season, we're seeing more and more teams sit down some of their more recognizable players, whether due to legitimate injury or, in the case of playoff teams with their seeding and prospects all but sewn up, just to get their stars a little bit of rest before the beginning of the postseason. But when those big names sit, someone's got to take their place — after all, we can't just simulate the games and start the playoffs early. (Yet. Get on it, Sloan Conference .) Given the chance to move from the end of their teams' benches up to the front of their coaches' rotations, a handful of usual bit-parters had unusually big nights on Monday. But who had the biggest/most surprising impact? Let's run 'em down in reverse order, and hear your opinions in the comments.
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