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At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts,  
junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on  
his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created 
 their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best  
hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was  
heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's  
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 team's quest for the state championship.   
Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's  
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 
 kid—but 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 married to his high-school  
sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His 
 basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no  
skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who  
remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking 
 for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die. In his own words, Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and  
everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful,  
honest, and dramatic, Basketball Junkie is a remarkable memoir, harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return.

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Data di pubblicazione: 13/02/2012; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2011. Copyright Statment: —

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