1.   Bench help can be substantial.

2.   Outside of a few more minutes from McIlvaine, the bench help will be the same as it was against the Timberwolves.

3.   Retreads Joe Kliene and Danny Schayes are bench help.

4.   The Bonilla-Zeile swap is mostly even, but the Dodgers had been searching desperately for bench help, and Eisenreich should help.

5.   The former Washington State Cougar signed a three-year guaranteed contract Tuesday with the Sonics, who were looking for bench help and found it.

6.   Charlotte, meanwhile, got bench help from Hersey Hawkins, especially in the fourth quarter.

7.   The AL West-leading Mariners have Mark McLemore as their starting second baseman, and also looking for bench help.