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Dixon, Baxter starting over in NBA quest

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 9, 2002

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- It only made sense. Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter, working out together on Maryland's campus, boosting each other's confidence as they try yet again to prove someone wrong about their talent. This time it's the folks in the NBA. The pair arrived at Maryland four years ago without the hype. Dixon was too skinny. Baxter was too short. Neither was expected to be too effective. But their careers ended last month in Atlanta with a piece of the Georgia Dome net in their caps, a ...

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