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BUCKS NOTES Booker, Freeman first to be cut loose

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19971016
Author:MICHAEL HUNT

The Bucks made their first training-camp roster reductions Wednesday by waiving guards Melvin Booker and Reggie Freeman.

Those cuts leave the Bucks with 14 healthy players and center Andrew Lang, whose hand injury probably will not allow him to return until the second or third week of the regular season.

The Bucks have until Oct. 30 to submit their 12-man roster to the league office. The season opens Oct. 31 at Philadelphia. Booker, a second-year point guard from Missouri, was released so he would have the opportunity to sign with Italy's Scavolini Pesaro of the European league. Otherwise, ...

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