All-Star reserves

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NEW YORK -- Seven first-time All-Stars are among the 14 reserves
selected
                 Tuesday for the NBA All-Star Game.

                 Head coaches chose seven players for each team,
including All-Star
                 perennials Karl Malone and John Stockton of Utah and
David Robinson of
                 San Antonio.

                 Those three were joined on the West squad by
Sacramento's Chris Webber,
                 Portland's Rasheed Wallace, Seattle's Gary Payton and
Dallas' Michael
                 Finley.

                 The East reserves are Milwaukee's Ray Allen and Glenn
Robinson, Indiana's
                 Dale Davis and Reggie Miller, New York's Allan Houston,
Detroit's Jerry
                 Stackhouse and Atlanta's Dikembe Mutombo.

                 Davis, Glenn Robinson, Allen, Stackhouse, Houston,
Wallace and Finley are
                 all first-time choices.

                 The NBA All-Star Game will be played Feb. 13 at
Oakland, Calif.