Memie Clifton Burton Jr. (born September 3, 1937[1]) is an American former basketball player and medical doctor.

He set the school scoring records with 1,141 points and led the team to the state basketball championship in 1954.

[1] Burton scored 22 points in the championship game, a 43–41 victory over Flint Northern before a crowd of 11,835 at Jenison field house in East Lansing, Michigan.

[1] His 1959 totals also made him the first player to lead the Big Ten Conference in both scoring and rebounds in the same year.

Even the Pistons general manager at the time admitted that a degree in medicine would be worth more to me in five years than a career in basketball.

[1] During his first two years of medical school, he played on weekends for the Holland Oilers in the Midwest Professional Basketball League ("MPBL").

He was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he was permitted to play the 1964–65 season for the Grand Rapids Tackers in the newly formed North American Basketball League ("NABL").

After the 1968–69 NABL season, Burton ended his semi-pro basketball career and opened a medical practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, and infertility.