Couch: Marcus Taylor at peace with basketball

He's moved on from not becoming an NBA mainstay and now is focused on life, and raising his daughter

(Photo: AL GOLDIS, AP)LANSING – Marcus Taylor’s life is not a great American tragedy. He wanted to make sure that came across Wednesday at the end of an hour-long interview.

He does understand, though, that his is a quintessential story of what might have been. He was a childhood basketball legend — that's perhaps an understatement — who fell short of his dreams and expectations. Then, to a world that once followed his every move, he disappeared.

If Taylor is still bitter about an NBA career that didn’t happen or longs for a relationship with Michigan State’s basketball program that doesn’t…