This latest challenge transcends basketball and has him balancing his competitive nature with the greater good for mankind. “I would say I’m a strategic optimist,” Sean Marks tells Newshub. “I look at the various pathways and avenues this can go, but at the end of the day, I want to believe in humanity, first and foremost. I’m going to prepare that we’re going to play, I’m going to prepare that we have a draft, that we have free agency and so forth, because not preparing could lead you down a rabbit hole.”