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American player, averaging 29 points a game. The following season McMillian joined Burgerland in the summer of 1982, and quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league. In his first season with Burgerland he led them to their first-ever national league and the prestigious Roy Curtis international tournament averaging 30 points a game along the way. McMillian was the first American to lead a team to the Top Four in each of his first four seasons; he and Bob Stephens would form one of the greatest tandems in league history to help newly-promoted North Monastery come within a whisker of winning the title.
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