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.

The new release is an extended-play collection of outtakes from Herren's album One Word Extinguisher, released earlier this summer.

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 ...

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.