He's a consummate role player, which is exactly what the Sixers need.
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Scott has never pretended to be anything more than a role player.
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I think he has a chance to be a good role player.
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Mostly, he was just there, a role player on a bad team.
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Wesley Iwundu grew from a quiet role player into an NBA draft pick.
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Boeheim has said he thought Hopkins might never be more than a role player.
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He's never been a particularly high-level role player—more of a replacement-level one.
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A veteran role player acquired in a minor trade in June, Pearce has proved invaluable.
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I'm hopeful as they both grow, they will come to appreciate this exceptional culinary role player.
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Twelve percent called Ocasio-Cortez a hero, while 24 percent said she was a role player.
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No stars here, but a solid role player isn't out of the question for these guys.
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In just a few months, Poole has developed into a valuable role player for the Wolverines.
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Ashley Robinson, who was a role player for 11 years in the W.N.B.A., made that discovery.
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Its most popular titles include role-player game series Lineage, Marvel: Future Fight, StoneAge and Seven Knights.
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Lue was a role player for the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
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Basically, Anunoby currently fits the profile of a future NBA role player, and not a budding star.
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Since then, he's been relegated to a role player, and has become a journeyman in the league.
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They stabilized Granada and have made the club a consistent low table role player in La Liga.
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Durant could spot up while Westbrook drove, but that would reduce an offensive genius to a role player.
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Injuries slowed him somewhat after that, but Brand became an effective role player during his career's later years.
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Ms. Jones, a gifted role-player, performs as the academic as well as all of her case studies.
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He quickly decided his niche was as a role player who brought energy and defense in large supplies.
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Jokic sees himself as a role player, not one that has to speak up more with Millsap out.
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So, signing the greatest role player of all time just might be enough to push 'em over the top.
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Watching Adams over the last few weeks, it's clear that he's so much more than a harmonious role player.
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Another, Rafael Devers, singled home the go-ahead run in Game 4 after Pearce, a role player who hit .
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A starting quarterback, a punter or a role-player on a team would all have different values, he says.
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The leading scorer remaining is Jordan Clarkson, a role player last year now taking on more of the load.
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A key role player for the champion Warriors, Iguodala still seems to have a lot to offer at 33.
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Cousins has never been a role player, though he acknowledged his new (and unfamiliar) place in the Warriors' ecosystem.
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"In my head, if the role player came with money for the program, that helped the program," he said.
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A key component of being a premier role player is knowing your limits and not stepping out of line, too.
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Bol only played in 26.1 minutes per game for one season in the pros, and was mostly a role player.
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There's still a place for him in the NFL, but it's as a backup or role player at this point.
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At this stage of his career, Ntilikina doesn't have to become an overnight superstar — just an above-average role player.
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Draymond Green has evolved from a second-round pick to a role player, starter, and now, a legitimate NBA superstar.
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Yet even if he doesn't become the best possible version of himself, he can still be a valuable role player.
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This time, a star import sparked the Dodgers with small ball and a role player saved them with a twist.
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Viewing it one way, Boston dealt a star, role player, promising big-man prospect, and high draft pick for...another star.
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He's previously played in the playoffs with the Oklahoma City Thunder, but only as a role player behind superstar Russell Westbrook.
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No matter what, the resulting exchange between serious-minded role-player and DGAF (but still somewhat knowledgeable?) casuals is absolutely perfect.
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Half a decade removed from his most recent All-NBA team, Anthony can still be an effective, uniquely valuable role player.
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He finished as a role player for the San Antonio Spurs, winning a championship ring, the fifth of his playing career.
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It&aposs a chance to make history -- whether you&aposre a star like Madison Bumgarner or a role player like Sandy Amoros.
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By the beginning of this season's finals — the Australian term for playoffs — he had firmly established himself as a solid role player.
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If Charlotte's new center realizes he's nothing more than a well-decorated role player, the Hornets will bounce back into the playoffs.
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"He was more of a role player last year, due to Jonathan Stark and Terrell," added Shaq Buchanan, Morant's current backcourt partner.
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It's a personnel-acquisition strategy that's always made total sense, but James now desires a role player who can operate outside his orbit.
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They are the result of being able to play next to superstars like Leonard and Aldridge; that's how being a role player works.
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Every once in a while, though, a great role player on a great team breaks through and cements his place in NBA history.
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Would I want to be a role player on championship teams or be a superstar like Steve was and dominate games and seasons?
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I was just a role player on a mediocre college team; my scholarship was contingent on me doing my job on the basketball court.
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John Salley was a vital role player on the Detroit Pistons when they lost in the 1988 finals and won the next two titles.
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Correa and McCullers are stars now, and the Astros used Ruiz in a trade with Atlanta for Evan Gattis, a role player with power.
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Older brother Thanasis has not had quite the same impact, a role player who spends more time warming the bench than on the court.
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Yet Kerr, now the Warriors' coach and the reigning N.B.A. coach of the year, was a role player, a far different situation from Durant's.
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When a role player seemingly morphs into a star overnight, what you have is someone who already knows how to do the little things.
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If I'm doing a good job training you as a role player, you become more of a realistic tool for the people in the training.
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What is the Chamberlain–Russell rivalry, if not a decade-long battle of a crafty role player demolishing a gold-plated megastar over and over?
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George couldn't be more humble about the situation -- saying he was a scrappy role player back in the day ... and Davis is obviously a superstar.
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The remaining No. 2 pick of the 2010s is Jabari Parker (2014, Milwaukee Bucks), essentially a role player who is now with the Washington Wizards.
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That was bold, perhaps, for a role player, but few other 220th-round draft picks spend a day in the majors, let alone a decade.
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Will the card come to define the format and become "the card to beat" or will it simply be a role-player in a grindy strategy?
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UTL Sean Rodriguez was acquired in the offseason to give the Braves a valuable role player who can play almost any position and hit for power.
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While Golden State will be missing a key role player, Andre Iguodala, for the Finals opener, Cleveland might be without its second-best player, Kevin Love.
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They were together again for their championship run in 2016 — Williams as a role player off the bench, James as the greatest player of his generation.
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Well, Rudy Gobert, who is one of the N.B.A.'s best defenders; Joe Ingles, an entertaining role player; and Mitchell, who could be a breakout rookie.
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In two seasons playing for the Oceanic, he became a reliable role player who demonstrated that his opportunity to play had been earned and not inherited.
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He spent the last two years with the Cavaliers, serving as a role player and helping the franchise win its first championship during the 2015-16 season.
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Monday morning, he was starting the school week in a Chapel Hill classroom — where he learned what happens when you level up from role-player to royalty.
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Pitched as an action role-player, it features enormous robot dinosaurs roaming a post-apocalyptic world that's been reclaimed by nature alongside these AI-driven metallic beasts.
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As a role player, he added an essential element, his brute-force bars operating as a blunt instrument, their firmest connection to a rough-hewn street aesthetic.
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He also may top out as a role player, which makes Phoenix's decision to give up all they did for that type of service a bit divisive.
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One of the best second baseman of his era, he has, at 39, been relegated to a role player, frequently coming off the bench in tough situations.
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The meaningful difference is that Barnes is a world champion role player and Williams only just began his transition out of draft bust infamy two years ago.
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The trajectory of his career is entirely unpredictable, with multiple All-Star and All-NBA teams as likely as him maxing out as an energetic role player.
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From the system (on both ends) to how every single role player makes his life easier (on both ends), there's no excuse for Harden not to be excellent.
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LeBron's Scottie Pippen right now is a 15-year role player who made one All-Star team because he was in the right place at the right time.
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If "legend" seems a bit hyperbolic in terms of a description of a role player that no longer has much of a role, then you're probably not from Miami.
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Because a lot of players can tell you that and they might do it for a year, but then it's contract time and they're no longer a role player.
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Tomas Satoransky is an intriguing prospect who should turn into a solid role player as he adjusts to being stateside, but right now he's a turnover machine who can't shoot.
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His game is forever a New England weather forecast, but remains critical, on both ends, for a team that needs every role player to hit their ceiling this spring. 113.
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A team drafting Jackson could end up with a mature role player who can make a positive impact as a rookie and become a more versatile defender in the future.
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"Almost like a father wants to provide for his kids," Trent Tucker, a onetime Knick and a role player on the 1992-33 champion Bulls, said during that season's finals.
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To be considered a success relative to his contract—three years, $36 million—he'd merely need to be the effective role player he was for the Rockets, Lakers, and Hornets.
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More, as I play it, I can't help but yearn for more of CD Projekt's great role-player, which just nailed open-world adventuring for me, for this console generation.
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The junior went for 23 points in the first contest and 24 in the second, putting his days as a role player further behind him with each new career high.
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"They made him a role player because of who we had, but I always felt like Nuni could hit, because he hit good pitching," the Yankees' C. C. Sabathia said.
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That was a role-player with a big but empty world and unsatisfying combat, which unfortunately stood in the way of a fantastic story, told with a quiet and melancholic tone.
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Even this rare and theoretically exciting play—a superstar getting owned on a dribble drive by a role player—is rendered in muted colors amongst the soulless machinations of the Spurs.
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Ball is a role player in the doofy discourse of TV sports, and an effective one, but he is effective and entertaining precisely because he believes himself to be a star.
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That's out on the 10th, as is Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, Level-5's welcome follow-up to its charming PS3 exclusive role-player Wrath of the White Witch.
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When Shaq signed with the Boston Celtics for the veteran's minimum in 2010, he was looking for a good old-fashioned role player title to round out his impressive NBA tenure.
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Steamforged, developers of the newly released Darks Souls: The Board Game, have had to face up to some pretty unique challenges in bringing FromSoftware's iconic action role-player series to the tabletop.
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But do you know what happens when a Vine celebrity mobilizes an army of more than three million digitally addicted teens to propel a role player into the NBA All-Star game?
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With the Spurs firmly in the hands of Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge, Duncan would be reduced to a role player, likely one who comes off the bench and maybe even sparingly.
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But the excuses for Westbrook came to a halt after General Manager Sam Presti landed two superstars this off-season in Anthony and George, along with a tremendous role player in Patterson.
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Technology is putting an end to a lot of hardscrabble careers, much as technology (and math) have made the "play hard" NBA role player a memory for fans like Yang and me.
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His defense is a work in progress, but it's not far fetched to think he is on his way to becoming a solid role player in the N.B.A. Maybe with the Knicks.
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I'll say it right now, any martial artist who devotes a great deal of their time to disarming unresisting knife or gun wielding training partners is essentially a live action role player.
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Another key role player, Shaun Livingston, made his five field-goal tries for 10 points to give Golden State a lift in the first half after making all four of his shots Thursday.
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He's a former No. 27 overall pick who zoomed from role player to foundational player — either beside Leonard or in a post-Kawhi world should Leonard flee Canada in free agency this summer.
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Phil Jackson, the Knicks' president, was dealt a small blow even before the lottery when Bruce Bowen, an ESPN broadcaster and a former San Antonio Spurs role player, took a shot at him.
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Sugar Rodgers, the Starks of this team, who never met a three she didn't want to take and worked to make herself into a starter after an early career as a role player.
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A co-production between action developers Platinum Games and game director Taro Yoko, and published by Square Enix, the action-role-player has become one of the most-anticipated new games of early 23.
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You may know Big Narstie as a rapper, YouTube advice guru, or live action role-player, but it's important that you know that he's an actor too, and a very serious one at that.
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Couple that with Terry Rozier's clear ascendence, Semi Ojeleye's increasing comfort, and Gordon Hayward's eventual return, and the need for another ball-handling role player at the price Smart may command just isn't there.
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" He was, in part, vouching for his own longevity, from quasi star to longtime starter to aging role player, or what he called "a high-level professional that really good teams would want around.
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The Liberty have such a player in Epiphanny Prince, but Prince missed most of 2016 recovering from knee surgery, and has been a role player since returning—the Rolando Blackman of this Liberty team.
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Maybe he will play in the NBA and be a decent role player or an excellent talent just waiting to be uncorked from the bottle of college, or maybe he will fail quietly and sadly.
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Smith, who was a role player in the N.B.A. for about a decade and won two championships behind Hakeem Olajuwon on the Houston Rockets, built a following for himself through hard work and sheer audacity.
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Signing two max stars is a possibility either way, but if only one feels certain, they can shop around without losing Harris and still have plenty leftover for another useful role player (like Danny Green?!).
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I'm fairly certain that Dwight Howard won't be able to maintain his 79.2 percent shooting from the floor for a whole season, but he looks as useful as a role player as Green and Avery Bradley.
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When considering a trade for someone who's volatile enough to either become a perennial All-Star or a peculiar role player, everyone involved must deal with a level of uncertainty that should make them quite uncomfortable.
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Between being a Mana-like role-player, all questing into caves and defeating dungeon-lurking boss creatures; and more of a micromanagement-heavy settlement simulator, like Animal Crossing I suppose, mixed with a little Harvest Moon.
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I've watched the videos, and my conclusion is that this person who claims to be Q is nothing more than a LARPer [live-action role player] who couldn't come up with an original thought if they tried.
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So if you, like me, fancy putting a brief pause on your role-player of choice right now, to tear through a short, sharp and comically savage shooter campaign, few come as recommended right now as Bulletstorm's.
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So far, the Lakers have gotten the version of Howard that NBA observers have wanted to see from years — in essence, a high-end role player who does the hard work and blends into the team's systems.
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Yet the caveat from the Executive of the Year section also applies here: Houston will force us all to re-evaluate things if it acquires Butler and persuades Carmelo Anthony to embrace role-player status at last.
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Which wasn't all that much, given The Stick of Truth was considered a surprisingly competent role-player by many a critic, ultimately admirably crafted by Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity) despite some turbulent development.
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Throughout his storied NBA career, Hall-of-Famer Dennis Rodman has always served as the ultimate role player – whether it was on the Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls or whichever team he was grabbing rebounds and winning championships for.
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Already down multiple starters due to injury, the latest role player to be thrust into a starting role, guard Wes Schweitzer, is stepping in for Andy Levitre, who was placed on injured reserve Monday with a triceps injury.
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He helped the Yankees win two championships, in 23 and 2000, but he left the game as a role player, and he made his debut on the ballot in 2750 with support from just 245 percent of the voters.
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It's one thing to be a role player for a few years, but to be a superstar in one town and have the whole place adore, the whole city — to go back is going be very emotional for him.
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A role player ran through the crowd, impersonating a perp; the cops were encouraged to snap a photo on their iPhones and upload it to Axon Citizen, a new offering designed to make bystander video accessible to the nervous system.
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Instead of viewing him as a role player, it may be more intuitive to highlight the glimpses of All-Star potential Brown showed last year, during an impressive season in which Boston was miles better with him on the floor.
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Prior to Friday's game, Booker—a smooth, promising young talent stuck on a lousy team—had attained a level of notoriety roughly equal to that of, say, Marcus Smart, the defense-first likely-lifetime-role-player Boston tasked with checking him.
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A former Kansas point guard who has never beaten his alma mater in seven career games, Turgeon found the time to express his admiration for Ellis' progression from role player to team leader of the nation's top-ranked team going into the tournament.
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While Pachulia has always been a solid role player—the most points he has ever averaged was 12.2 per game in 2006-07—he seems to have found a niche in Dallas (he is, however, an unrestricted free agent after this season).
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"Every practice is like a game, that's how I treated it when I was a rookie," said Toronto Raptors guard Cory Joseph, another late first pick who played little in his first season before becoming an important role player with the Spurs.
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Kris has built his career on heady competence, breaking and bleeding to become a functional NBA role player-wing, the kind of boring shit competence that makes you fabulously wealthy for the rest of your life without anyone really knowing who you are.
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But it's also easy, I think, to view him as a safe pick, a potential high-level role player who works hard on defense, provides off-ball value on offense, and allows his team to better run a switch-everything defensive scheme.
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Submerged in their horrible night-shaded goo, Leonard outstrips all expectations, becomes a brilliant multi-dimensional role player, so great at so many things, such a perfect manifestation of his excellent environment that he comes out on the other side a superstar.
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Over the first five games of that championship series, Green shed his role player skin for stardom, averaging 18 points, four rebounds, and 0003 blocks while making 25 of his 38 three-point attempts on his way to a then Finals record for most threes.
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Your experience will vary from mine, what with Fates featuring three different narrative paths to choose from, but I'm still playing through Intelligent Systems' tactical role-player for the 3DS on its "Birthright" route (the easiest one, by all accounts), and having a splendid time.
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"As a commercial bank, we are a key role player in funding the economy and any material impact to property prices would adversely affect confidence in the banking system and could trigger a classic banking crisis with significant negative knock-on effects on the economy," Brown said.
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That's impressive, considering five years ago Kidd was an integral role player on the New York Knicks, and, at 44 years old, is still learning on the job with a team that's yet to actualize the entirety of its potential for reasons outside any one individual's control.
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However, he hasn't shown much during either of his NBA stops, either, and a prospect who once looked like an elite shooter—so good he could fall back on a career as a role player if none of his other skills translated—has mysteriously lost his shot.
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The unspoken assertion was both obvious and deft — that while she may be an actress she is, in fact, the real thing; it is her opponent, with his back-room dealing and corporate coddling and dynastic affiliations, who stands as the role-player and the phony.
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In this year's group, look to Walkup, who shot 60 percent from the floor and 82 percent from the free throw line while rebounding like a power forward, assisting like a point guard, swiping the ball like a shooting guard, and avoiding turnovers like a low-usage role player.
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Chandler managed to fashion together a career as an ultra-role player who will live the rest of his life in comfort and wealth, respected and fondly remembered by most, a ring and a Defensive Player of the Year trophy on display in his living room or library.
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Other conspiracy theorists have attempted to throw cold water on QAnon, like this blogger who wrote that he too had been a believer but, after reviewing the evidence, concluded that he had "been tricked" by a LARPer (live-action role player) creating a fantastical story for their own entertainment.
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Jack clumsily augments his pass with an awkward little spin move, the kind of shit he probably saw Chris Paul do in New Orleans, a rank role player backup guard shittily appropriating the steez of the beautiful ones to try, for even one second, to be included in their ranks.
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If you, too, were smitten by this quest, I recommend seeking out the story: it adds context, no little additional narrative weight, and stirs within me, at least, the desire to read more of Sapkoswki's fiction, to hopefully discover further meaningful connections to my favorite role-player of all time.
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Jabari Parker Parker is a former No. 2 overall pick so in that sense it hurts for the Bucks to lose him for nothing, but he's a bit of an awkward fit alongside their franchise player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and he doesn't bring enough role player skills to really thrive in a secondary role.
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Winter was certain the heady Kerr would be a perfect role player in the famed triangle offense he was running for Phil Jackson; Kerr is the first to admit now that the success he found as a contributor to three Bulls championships was the springboard for everything else good in his basketball life.
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Iguodala had nothing close to a Mr. Clutch reputation when he arrived in Oakland, but his work as a defensive stopper against the game's biggest stars and his undeniable contributions to a budding dynasty seem to inspire a robust debate during every N.B.A. finals about his case, even as a role player, for Hall of Fame enshrinement.
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Draymond Green has redefined what a role player is and shown that he can be an All-Star and defensive player of the year, but he's walked the tightrope along the way and his suspension for Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals played a pivotal role in the Cleveland Cavaliers becoming the first team to overcome a 3-1 Finals deficit.
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The case against him: Seen by many as the weakest link in the Big Three — not that many players could stand up to a comparison to James and Wade — Bosh did not dominate in a flashy way, and his years of being the best player for the Toronto Raptors were quickly forgotten by those who chose to view him as a role player.
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Carmelo Anthony didn't deserve to be on the court with Westbrook and George — and he has been fairly emphatic about not considering himself to be a role player off the bench — and a team that seemed like it could be special ended up losing in the same round of the playoffs that it had in the year before it acquired George and Anthony.
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The No. 4 pick was Aaron Gordon, the No. 12 pick became Elfrid Payton, the No. 5 pick is (cue an intensely depressing trombone) Mario Hezonja, and the No. 6, taken a few months ago, is Jonathan Isaac, an intriguing rookie who projects to "only" become a valuable two-way role player—aka the exact type of guy they need to support the superstar they don't have.
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Bennett, a 29-year-old from New Zealand, is one of the best professional cyclists in the world, so to hear him talk of taking on the role of domestique — servant — in the late stages of the Tour de France is a bit like hearing the N.B.A.'s James Harden declare he has decided to close out the season as a defensive-minded role player.
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I viewed a report of Ariza having one eye on the Golden State Warriors as a way to instill the fear of God in Daryl Morey when Houston sits down to negotiate his next contract, and it'll be tricky for Houston to pay the declining role player (he turns 33 in five days) what he may want, with Chris Paul and Clint Capela also needing to be fed.
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Team(s): Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat2010-2019 averages: 16.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.6 steals, 44.5% FGAll-Star games: 4All-NBA teams: 6 (four All-Defensive, two All-NBA)Awards: Most Improved Player (2014-15)Championships: noneWhat to know: Over his nine years in the NBA, Butler has evolved from a high-energy role player to a three-and-D wing to a legitimate franchise star.
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Teams: Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers Career: 1994-2013, 18 years (didn't play 73-04 season) Career averages: 16.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 48.3% FG Number of All-Star teams: 7 Championships: 0 Hall of Fame: Yes Highest MVP finish: 3rd (1996-97) One thing to know: Ankle injuries turned Hill from one of the league's most promising stars to a valuable, yet limited role player late in his career.
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Leonard's health issues, while not entirely a thing of the past, did not stop Toronto from easily winning the most difficult division in the N.B.A. Credit should go not just to Leonard, but also to Coach Nick Nurse, who did a solid job of competing night in and night out; to Kyle Lowry, who moved on, reluctantly, from DeMar DeRozan; and most of all to Pascal Siakam, who, in one season, went from being viewed as a fun role player to being called a future superstar.
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We will not be complacent and silent in the face of another fixed fight, we won't sit idly by while you turn basketball into wrestling without the violence, a series of ups and down meant to exalt the star and denigrate the noble role player, the Trevor Arizas, the Jordan Crawfords (Exiled from the league, toiling in Grand Rapids, all for the crime of dunking on NBA golden boy LeBron James...) the Ivan Johnsons... You think we wouldn't find this picture of you "taking a selfie" with the former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, and his wife, whose name is also, presumably, Ash, which is a sassy and brassy shortening of Ashley!?
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