Mike Easterling of the Huntsville Times has a remembrance about the late Marvin Stone, an Alabama high school basketball legend who played at both Kentucky and Louisville.
Writes Easterling:
Stone played the game with dignity.
“Never been around a guy who liked people like Marvin did,” Stapler said. “He liked kids and adults. Didn’t run his mouth. Didn’t have much small talk. When Marvin said something you better listen.”
Mark Komara, who starred at guard for Johnson and UAH and later sponsored some summer league teams Stone played for, said “Tubby Smith told me one time he could beat you without scoring.”
But, Komara added, Stone was sometimes too much the gentle giant.
“You kind of wished at times he had more dog in him,” Komara said. “I saw it at times where he had dog in him, and he dominated games.”
Stone died of a heart attack in 2008 at the age of 26.
