Addiction is a familial disease for Chris Herren. “I grew up in a family that suffered from alcoholism,” he said. Herren was a basketball legend around his hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts.

Chris Herren‘s life story is a movie. Literally– it was chronicled in ‘Unguarded,’ arguably the best and most powerful documentary in ESPN’s universally acclaimed ’30 for 30′ series.

As such, Chris Herren's story really isn't all that unusual when you look at it from a big-picture perspective. He was a great young basketball player whose career fell off the rails thanks to ...

Portsmouth, Rhode Island, resident Chris Herren Jr. has been striding down a life-long basketball path that began at Portsmouth High School, then led to Tabor Academy, then to Boston College and ...