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The Insider: Star watch

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, October 23, 2009

This article appears in the Nov. 2 issue of ESPN The Magazine The NBA's best teams got even better over the summer. Problem is, they also got older, and that has their coaches facing an interesting, season-long balancing act. Somehow, they have to push just hard enough to get to the finish line first without forcing their geezers out of the race. For those who want to monitor this "battle inside the war," it will take more than just pitting Tim Duncan's playing time vs. Kevin Garnett's vs. V ...

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