{"id":6501,"date":"2013-07-18T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2013-07-18T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T00:18:24","slug":"what-the-fuck-happened-between-the-nba-and-the-dunkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/what-the-fuck-happened-between-the-nba-and-the-dunkin\/","title":{"rendered":"what the fuck happened between the NBA and the dunkin&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/natbaldwin.tumblr.com\/post\/38983165319\/chris-herren-was-my-hero-in-high-school-i-saw\" target=\"_blank\">nat baldwin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketballjunkie.net\/about\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chris herren was my hero in high school. \u00a0i saw him play at an AAU tournament in providence when i was 14. \u00a0nobody could guard him. \u00a0he was fearless, he played like a fucking maniac. \u00a0i wanted to play just like him. \u00a0a book came out around that time called &amp;#8216;fall river dreams&amp;#8217; which chronicled his junior season at durfee high in fall river, a tough mill town in southern mass. \u00a0it was my favorite book. \u00a0at that time i only read basketball books. he had a really good college career and a brief pro career, which seemed to be cut short due to injuries. \u00a0 i hadnt thought about him in a while until i read an article a couple years ago saying that he crashed his car into a dunkin donuts at 8am with a needle sticking out of his arm. \u00a0he was shooting up heroin with his daughter in the back seat. \u00a0he had just dropped her off at school. \u00a0he died briefly and then came back to life. \u00a0the last time i saw him he had a celtics uniform on. \u00a0what the fuck happened between the NBA and the dunkin&amp;#8217;? \u00a0 last year, he came out with a memoir called &amp;#8216;basketball junkie&amp;#8217; and he tells us what happened. its bonkers. \u00a0 \u00a0\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/e7e0b14b808fdf14451f80d035036f12\/tumblr_mfpnkbr5cN1s0al30o1_250.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>chris herren was my hero in high school. \u00a0i saw him play at an AAU tournament in providence when i was 14. \u00a0nobody could guard him. \u00a0he was fearless, he played like a fucking maniac. \u00a0i wanted to play just like him. \u00a0a book came out around that time called \u2018fall river dreams\u2019 which chronicled his junior season at durfee high in fall river, a tough mill town in southern mass. \u00a0it was my favorite book. \u00a0at that time i only read basketball books.<\/p>\n<p>he had a really good college career and a brief pro career, which seemed to be cut short due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>i hadnt thought about him in a while until i read an article a couple years ago saying that he crashed his car into a dunkin donuts at 8am with a needle sticking out of his arm. \u00a0he was shooting up heroin with his daughter in the back seat. \u00a0he had just dropped her off at school. \u00a0he died briefly and then came back to life. \u00a0the last time i saw him he had a celtics uniform on. \u00a0what the fuck happened between the NBA and the dunkin\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>last year, he came out with a memoir called \u2018basketball junkie\u2019 and he tells us what happened.<\/p>\n<p>its bonkers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from nat baldwin: chris herren was my hero in high school. \u00a0i saw him play at an AAU tournament in providence when i was 14. \u00a0nobody could guard him. \u00a0he was fearless, he played like a fucking maniac. \u00a0i wanted to play just like him. \u00a0a book came out around that time called \u2018fall river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}