Rodrigue Beaubois will make his season debut on Wednesday night against the Kings.

Rick Carlisle said he doesn't know how many minutes Beaubois will play in his first NBA action since last April, but it could be "significant" if backup point guard J.J. Barea is unavailable with flu-like symptoms and a slight groin injury.

"No one's more excited than me," Carlisle said of the second-year guard. "I know that he can elevate our team in a lot of areas on the one hand. On the other hand, we're talking about a kid who has established only one line of consistency, that is playing 2-guard when Jason Kidd is playing the 1.

"So my job as coach, and our job as a franchise, is to get him in a position to be more consistent on an all-around basis, and that's going to be extremely challenging given all these circumstances."