NBA Guard Jeff McInnis returns for Cleveland tonight, but is he too late?

The Cavs trail Boston by 21/2 games for the final playoff spot.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jeff McInnis saved Cleveland's season once, and now he has to rescue the Cavaliers again.
He may be too late this time.
After missing eight games with a shoulder injury, McInnis will be back on the floor tonight for the Cavaliers, who might have to win their final six games to have any shot at making the NBA playoffs.
"We're hanging by a thread here, but we're still hanging," coach Paul Silas said. "We just have to win as many as we can -- and we need some help."
The Cavaliers trail Boston by 21/2 games for the eighth spot and New York by 31/2 for seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland has six games remaining: three at home (Toronto, Miami and Milwaukee) and three away (Memphis, Miami and New York).
Both the Celtics and the Knicks have five games (three away, two at home) remaining, which leaves the Cavaliers with no margin for error entering tonight's game against the Raptors.
"We kind of control our own destiny," LeBron James said. "If we don't win, we're out. If we win, we got a chance. We have to do our jobs."
James is confident the Cavaliers, who have dropped to the brink of elimination by losing eight of nine, can run the table.
"We have before," he said. "We won seven in a row before."
Different story
That was on March 16 when the Cavs finished off the Chicago Bulls 111-87 in a game that ended with McInnis icing a sore right shoulder. The injury seemed insignificant at the time; now it is perhaps the one that will define Cleveland's season.
The Cavaliers have been lost without their starting point guard, whose arrival in a Jan. 21 trade from Portland transformed them into winners. With McInnis watching helplessly from the bench in street clothes, Cleveland's offense has sputtered and its defense is allowing too many easy baskets.
McInnis has been missed -- badly.
"It's like in football when your quarterback goes down, that makes it pretty tough," Silas said. "I don't want to make excuses, but losing him hurt."
McInnis' shoulder isn't 100 percent, but with time running out on the Cavaliers' season, he knows he has to play. He was to be activated today and guard DaJuan Wagner was expected to go on the injured list.
Wagner was kept out of Monday's practice with a sore right knee, the same one he had operated on last March, causing him to miss his final 20 games as a rookie and the first 33 games this season.
It's a good thing McInnis will be back in uniform. He can't bare the thought of having to sit on the bench another second.
"That's the first time in my career where I've been hurt bad enough where I couldn't play in consecutive games," said McInnis, who insists his shoulder is only bruised. "Going to the game knowing that I wasn't going to play, that was hard for me. I was bored, walking around and doing anything I could to stay busy."