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Recovered from shoulder injury, Maryland's Justin Jackson looks to find old magic in Orlando

Ever since Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon announced in late December that Justin Jackson would be sidelined for the remainder of the season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, the sophomore forward’s NBA future seemed to be teetering.

After a standout freshman year when he was second on the team in scoring behind Melo Trimble and made 43.8 percent of his 3-point shots, Jackson appeared out of sync offensively for most of the 11 games in which the 6-foot-7, 225-pound Canadian forward played.

As his 3-point percentage dropped to 25 percent, and he became the Big Ten’s only preseason first-team pick to see his scoring dip into single digits (9.