Markquis Nowell and the Magic of March

For years, I was a college basketball nut. As a family, we moved from Cleveland to Charlotte when I was in high school, which is kind of a lousy time to move, and on one of my first days, a potential friend named Robert (who would actually become my best friend) asked, “What’s your team?”

When I said “Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland …” h…