
He walked away from the dream to fulfill another, as a platoon leader in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington. “They’ve been tremendously supportive and accepted, ‘Hey, Marshall is his own individual with his own individual passions. It just happens to be that Marshall is not only passionate about basketball, but passionate about the Army and about service,’ ” Plumlee said of his brothers. “They’re probably my biggest cheerleaders on this new team that I’m on. … It took some time for everyone to warm up to the idea because we were a basketball family and that’s all we knew. But seeing how happy I am, seeing how I’ve improved as a person, they know I’m exactly where I’m meant to be.”