Lonny Baxter

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Basketball player
Lonny Baxter
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Player information
Full name Lonny Leroy Baxter
birthday 27th January 1979 (age 41)
place of birth Silver Spring , Maryland , USA
size 203 cm
Weight 120 kg
position Power Forward / Center
college Maryland (College Park)
NBA draft 2002 , 43rd Pick Chicago Bulls
Clubs as active
1998–2002 UMCP Terrapins ( NCAA ) 2002–2003 Chicago Bulls 2003–2004 Toronto Raptors 2004 Washington Wizards 2004 New Orleans Hornets 2005 Panathinaikos Athens 2005–2006 Houston Rockets 2006 Charlotte Bobcats 2006–2007 Montepaschi Siena 2007–2008 Joventut de Badalona 2008–2009 Panionios Athens 2009–2010 Beşiktaş Cola Turka 2010–2012 BK Yenisei Krasnoyarsk 2013 Guaiqueríes de Margarita United StatesUnited States
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Lonny Leroy Baxter (born January 27, 1979 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) is a retired American basketball player .

Career as a player

USA (1997-2006)

Baxter played from 1998 to 2002 for the University of Maryland's College Park team , with whom he won the 2002 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . A year earlier he had come third with the selection of the best college players in the United States at the 2001 Universiade in Beijing and won the bronze medal.

After winning the NCAA championship, his four-year college career was over and in the 2002 NBA Draft he was selected in the second round by the Chicago Bulls. A year later, he moved to Toronto Raptors in December 2003. At the end of February 2004 he was released again and then committed to the Washington Wizards until the end of the season. In the expansion draft he was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats, but was a free agent in the Atlanta Hawks' squad before the start of the season .

After he was kicked out of the Hawks' season roster, he had a two-week engagement with the New Orleans Hornets in December 2004. For the remainder of the 2004/05 season he then signed a contract in Europe for the first time with the Greek series champion Panathinaikos from Athens, with whom he also won the Greek double in 2005. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2004/05 , he was only used in the game for third place in the Final Four tournament. After losing the semi-finals against the defending champion and later again title holder Maccabi Tel Aviv, they won the game for third place against host PBK CSKA Moscow just after extra time.

For the 2005/06 season he signed again as a free agent in the NBA with the Houston Rockets . However, in February 2006 he was transferred to the Charlotte Bobcats, who actually used him after they had not exercised their rights after the expansion draft a season earlier.

However, in August 2006, Baxter was noted for shooting in the air near the White House and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.

Europe (since 2006)

After these events, Baxter went to Europe for good. His previously concluded contract with the Italian club Montepaschi from Siena revived in November 2006 and he became Italian champion with this club in 2007.

In the following season, after serving a second prison sentence for violating gun laws in connection with the dispatch of firearms, in mid-November 2007 he signed a contract with Joventut from Badalona, Catalonia, and played with his compatriot Demond Mallet and the German Jan-Hendrik Jagla and of the then young hopeful Ricky Rubio .

At the beginning of February 2008 he terminated this contract and moved back to Panionios from Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki . He missed Joventut's title win in the Spanish "Copa del Rey" cup competition the following weekend and in the second most important European club competition, the ULEB Cup, two months later.

At Panionios he lost the semi-final play-offs in the Greek championship in 2008 against his ex-club Panathinaikos; in the following season 2008/09 they were eliminated a round earlier.

In the 2009/10 season he played in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for Beşiktaş Cola Turka in Istanbul . The team was eliminated in the Turkish championship in the semi-final playoffs, while Baxter was only able to play part of the championship games and was then in a legal dispute over allegedly outstanding salary payments.

From 2010 to 2012 Baxter played in the Russian PB league for Yenisei Krasnoyarsk . Here he was elected to the PBL Second Team in the 2010/2011 season.

Awards and Achievements

With the team

Personal awards

  • Member of the All-ACC 1st Team for the 1999/2000 and 2000/01 seasons.
  • Member of the All-ACC 2nd Team for the 2001/02 season
  • Member of the PBL 2nd Team for the 2010/2011 season in the PBL .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim O'Connell ( AP ): Mighty Maryland !! Terps Defeat Hoosiers, 64-52, To Win National Championship. (No longer available online.) University of Maryland, College Park , April 1, 2002, archived from the original September 27, 2012 ; accessed on February 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umterps.com
  2. ↑ a b Associated Press : Ex-NBA player Lonny Baxter sentenced to two months in jail. USA Today , August 23, 2006; accessed February 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Legabasket: Lonny Baxter. Legabasket , accessed on February 11, 2012 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages ).
  4. ^ Ruben Castaneda: Former Terp Baxter Sentenced to 60 Days in Prison. The Washington Post , August 31, 2007; accessed February 11, 2012 .
  5. ^ League ACB: Lonny Baxter. Liga ACB , accessed February 11, 2012 (Spanish).
  6. ^ EFE : El DKV Joventut rescinde el contrato de Baxter, que ficha por el Panionios. Liga ACB , February 6, 2008, accessed February 11, 2012 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Lonny Baxter - Turkish Basketball League Player: 2009-2010 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on February 11, 2012 (English, statistics from the 2009/10 season).
  8. ^ Allen Iverson has an offer from Besiktas. ESPN , October 12, 2010, accessed February 11, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Baxter, Lonny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baxter, Lonny Leroy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Silver Spring , Maryland