Basketball Junkie: A Memoir
рмормЗ 2011 ┬╖ St. Martin's Press
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As seen in ESPN FilmsтАЩ Unguarded, a тАЬpowerful . . . bracing . . . exceptionalтАЭ true account of the former NBA and overseas proтАЩs rise and harrowing fall (NPR Books).
I was dead for thirty seconds.
ThatтАЩs what the cop in Fall River told me.
When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his familyтАЩs and the declining cityтАЩs dreams on his skinny frame. He was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonaldтАЩs All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee teamтАЩs quest for the state championship.
Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry TarkanianтАЩs Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kidтАФbut off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control.
Twenty years later, Chris Herren was a husband, a father, and a heroin junkie, who would flirt with deathтАФand ultimately live to tell about it.
I was dead for thirty seconds.
ThatтАЩs what the cop in Fall River told me.
When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his familyтАЩs and the declining cityтАЩs dreams on his skinny frame. He was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonaldтАЩs All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee teamтАЩs quest for the state championship.
Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry TarkanianтАЩs Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kidтАФbut off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control.
Twenty years later, Chris Herren was a husband, a father, and a heroin junkie, who would flirt with deathтАФand ultimately live to tell about it.
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CHRIS HERREN is a former NBA basketball player for the Denver Nuggets and the Boston Celtics. His company, Hoop Dreams with Chris Herren, Inc., provides basketball training for young players as well as educational talks. He lives in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Chris Herren is the founder of Hoop Dreams with Chris Herren, a basketball player development company; the author of Basketball Junkie; and a public speaker with the American Program Bureau.
BILL REYNOLDS is a sports columnist for TheProvidence Journal and the author of several previous books, including Fall River Dreams and (with Rick Pitino) the #1 New York Times bestseller Success Is a Choice. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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