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Nothing alarming about Bucks' struggles

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, March 21, 2003

If it's not an adage for NBA coaches, it should be: Get along with your best player or they'll be getting along without you. A coach can complain all he wants about his star -- and many do -- but at the end of the day he better make sure his star knows he's the star. Bucks coach George Karl, unable to stomach doing that with Ray Allen any longer, replaced him with a star to whom he doesn't mind catering, Gary Payton. Karl, of course, is not the first to make this move. He'd just be the first t ...

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