When the world stopped trying to squeeze Chris Marcus into the box he would never fit in, the gentle giant finally wrote his own story.
He never asked for the spotlight at Western Kentucky. He never asked to be 7-foot-1. He never accepted basketball as his definition. And yet, if it weren’t for all of those elements leading to his darkest days and the constant questions that will never be answered, Chris Marcus might never have truly found Chris Marcus.
Go ahead, Google him.
What you’ll find now is that Chris Marcus died Thursday at the age of 40 at home in Charlotte, N.