Both were in the middle of franchise-best seasons with a finely tuned roster of role players and budding stars.
TV has wised up to this, producing a diverse roster of LGBT roles, even if they are broadly telling gay stories through straight characters.
Hire a rookie coach to invigorate a roster of mostly role players -- and see what happens.
Some get their courage from a roster of new role models.
The Lakers today have a solid co-star in Pau Gasol and a roster of willing role players to support Bryant, their one sure Hall of Famer.
With the new offense in place, Jordan, Pippen, and a roster of key role players including gritty forward Horace Grant, veteran centre Bill Cartwright, and three-point shooting specialist John Paxson pushed the Pistons to a seventh game before losing in the 1990 Eastern Conference finals.
Stephen Daldry, the director of the show based on the film about an 11-year-old boy from an English mining town who prefers dancing to boxing, said an Asian boy is entering its rotating roster of title-role actors, and plans are in the works for overseas productions, The Guardian of London reported yesterday.
He played Lysander at the Open Air, Regent's Park, in 1948, then spent three years at the Bristol Old Vic (1950-53), embarking on his astonishing roster of leading classical roles: Gregers Werle in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Marlow in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Dunois in Shaw's Saint Joan, the Duke in Measure for Measure..
The U.S. team's toughest competition figures to again be the Spanish team, with their deep roster of NBA stars and role players, including Pau and Marc Gasol, Rudy Fernandez, Serge Ibaka, Jose Calderone, and rookie phenom Ricky Rubio.
The voice-overs by the all-Canadian cast of Resident Evil 2 were recorded before the actual cutscenes were completed, with each of the actors selected from a roster of ten people per role.
