The first time I picked up a basketball in the gym and shot it, I made the basket. I was in 7th grade and it was the beginning of basketball season. I don’t remember how everyone knew that, but I was picked pretty early as teams were being formed.

Well shooting a ball and making a basket is way different than playing the game, and in my early years of trying to play basketball, I was embarrassingly bad. By 9th grade, I was always one of the last boys picked to be on a team.