Basketball Junkie

As seen in ESPN Films’ Unguarded , a “powerful . . . bracing . . . exceptional” true account of the former NBA and overseas pro’s rise and harrowing fall ( NPR Books ). I was dead for thirty seconds. That’s 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 family’s and the declinin