6. Robert Horry

The ultimate role player, he stretches the defense and hits outside shots, mixes it up defensively, always makes good decisions, fights for loose balls, and most importantly, his team always seems to win freaking championships.

Why they’re tough to find: Mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, stated something to the effect of if you give millions of men a quarter and have them flip it 100 times, someone will have gotten heads every time, and he’ll be called a genius. While there’s certainly a similar an element in Horry’s coronation as the role player who excretes winning, (seriously, how did that ball go from Vlade Divac to him?) he’s capitalized on every opportunity to prove his worth.

Example of this player on the Spurs: Robert Horry.