[In the March 27, 1974 issue of The Basketball Weekly, journalist Larry Donald filed this excellent story about swingman Jim McMillian, a.k.a., Jimmy Mac, and the trade that sent him from the sun and surf of Southern California to the pastoral green and urban grit of Upstate New York. That would be the then-NBA small-market outpost of Buffalo. McMillian…
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