Lonny Baxter

Lonny Leroy Baxter ( born January 27, 1979 in Silver Spring, Maryland ) is an American professional basketball player. Last Baxter in 2012 played in the Russian PBL for BK Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.

  • 2.1 With the team
  • 2.2 Personal Awards

Career as a player

USA (1997-2006)

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

After winning the NCAA championship his four-year collegiate career was over and the NBA Draft 2002, he was selected in the second round by the Chicago Bulls. A year later he moved in December 2003 to Toronto Raptors. End of February 2004, he was dismissed again and connect to end of season committed by the Washington Wizards. In the Expansion Draft, he was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats, but was pre-season as a free agent in the squad of the Atlanta Hawks. After he flew out of the season the Hawks squad, he had a two week engagement at the New Orleans Hornets in December 2004. For the rest of the season 2004 /05 he signed a contract for the first time in Europe at the Greek series champion Panathinaikos from Athens, with whom he won the Greek Double 2005. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2004 /05 he was assigned to the third place in the Final Four tournament only in the game. After they had previously lost the semi-final against the defending champion, and later re- title holders Maccabi Tel Aviv, you won the game for third place against host PBK CSKA Moscow just after extra time. For the 2005/ 06 season he signed as a free agent again in the NBA with the Houston Rockets. However, in February 2006, he was transferred to the Charlotte Bobcats, who then actually put him after they had their rights under the expansion draft not seen a season before.

However, in August 2006, Baxter fell for shots in the air in the vicinity of the White House and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Europe ( since 2006)

After these events, Baxter finally went to Europe. His previously closed contract with the Italian club Montepaschi Siena lived from November 2006 to again and he won the 2007 Italian champion this club. In the following season he signed after having served a second term of imprisonment for violations of gun laws in connection with the shipment of firearms mid-November 2007 a ​​contract with Joventut from the Catalan Badalona and played together with his compatriot Demond Mallet and the German Jan- Hendrik Jagla and the then rising star Ricky Rubio. In early February 2008, he broke this agreement and moved back to Panionios Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki. He missed winning the title of Joventut in the Spanish cup competition " Copa del Rey " on the following weekend and the second most important European club competition ULEB Cup two months later.

In Panionios he lost the semi-final play-offs in the Greek Cup in 2008 against his former club Panathinaikos; in the following season 2008/ 09 is different then already a lap earlier from. In the season 2009/10 he played in the Türkiye Ligi for Beşiktaş Cola Turka Basketbol in Istanbul. The team retired in the Turkish championship from the semi-final playoffs, while Baxter could only participate a part of the championship games and then was in a dispute over alleged outstanding salary payments. Since the 2010/11 season he plays in the Russian PB- League for the Yenisei from Krasnoyarsk. Here he was elected to the 2010/2011 season in the PBL Second Team.

Awards and achievements

The team

  • Universiade bronze medal: 2001
  • NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship: 2002
  • Winners of the Greek Cup: 2005
  • Winners of the Greek Cup: 2005
  • Third Place ULEB Euro League: 2005
  • Winner of the Italian Championship: 2007

Personal awards

  • Member of the All -ACC 1st Team of the season 1999/2000 and 2000/ 01.
  • Member of the All -ACC 2nd team of the season 2001/ 02
  • Member of the PBL 2nd team of the 2010/2011 season in the PBL.
Center (Basketball) 2002 NBA draft National Collegiate Athletic Association Italy Mens Sana Basket Joventut Badalona Panionios B.C. BC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk Greece Double (association football) 2004–05 Euroleague Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. PBC CSKA Moscow Jan Jagla Greek Basket League Euroleague Basketball FIBA Europe Lega Basket Serie A The Washington Post
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