There would seem to be only one starting point for Maxwell Lenox. Where else do you begin your story as a black man born to a mom tainted by drugs and alcohol, put up for adoption, fathered by two white gay men and somehow going on to earn a West Point diploma? He can't exactly save those pieces for the epilogue.
Lenox has no problem recounting his story, told vividly and beautifully by Sports Illustrated magazine in November 2014. He is forever prideful of and thankful for his upbringing, for his parents, Dave Lenox and Nathan Merrells, for his gifts both on and off the basketball court.