Lennie McMillian

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Lennie Lee McMillian(born 21 March 1959 in McRae,Georgia) is an Irish professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players to ever play in Ireland.

After a standout career at the University of Pittsburgh, including a Big East title against Patrick Ewing's Georgetown Lennie narrowly missed out on the NBA draft and opted to go overseas. Lennie decided to play professionally in Ireland at which time basketball was experienced a boom in popularity. Lennie joined Burgerland in the summer of 1982,and quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring and lockdown defense. In his first season he won a championship. From there Lennie played with many teams including St Vincents, Tolka Rovers, Tridents, UCD Marian, North Mon and Denny Notre Dame.

Lennie has won 4 Irish Cups (1 North Mon) (3 Notre Dame), including one cup final MVP for Notre Dame in the 1996 cup final. During that season Lennie received the Irish Sportmen of the week award (an award given out by the Irish Independent) for his performance against Star of the Sea in the Sprite cup quarter final. He helped Notre Dame overcome a 30 point deficit on the way to their second cup win.