"Guard Courtney Lee was on the floor less than a minute before he got a deflection on the defensive end and knocked down a 3-pointer on the offensive end. He had missed eight games with a sprained right calf suffered Jan. 3 at Los Angeles, but he returned Tuesday showing little sign of the time off.

Lee played 16 minutes, scoring six points and getting a pair of steals. He said he was surprised he felt as strong as he did.

"My only expectation was to get in there and try to go as hard as I could," Lee said. "I thought I was going to be in there two to three minutes, go hard, come out. But when I was in there, I never got tired.""