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The role you were born to play

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, March 16, 2009

In the latest issue of The Mag, we take a look at four role-players () whose contributions to their squads come playoff time could make or break a title run. But it also got us thinking about the various types of role-players teams look for. These guys won't hang any triple-doubles on you, but they will make pretty good careers out of one specific contributing role.* *This by no means is to suggest that Renaldo Balkman is a Defensive Player of the Year candidate or that Joel Przybilla is th ...

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