Explain why the narrator isn’t being included at any of the games at first in the How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a place of Higher learning and You at the Podium?

The basketball players at the gym are older men, many of them who seem poor, homeless, or “shifty” (9). The narrator is by far the youngest player, and as a result, he doesn't get picked to participate in any of the games.