Enjoyable read about a basketball prodigy and his struggling Massachusetts hometown whose identity has been become intertwined with its high school basketball team. The only problem I had with this book was how the author kept commenting about how the high school basketball team was everything to this town. Then I looked up the population of the town, almost 100,000, the size of the high school with over 3,000 students and how the gym would only seat 2,500 and I thought, “If he went to a few games in Southern Illinois or Indiana he wouldn’t be making so many statements of that nature.” Our little town of 7,000 had a gym that could hold 4,000 and packed it out regularly when I was growing up. I thought, these Southeastern Massachusetts communities had nothing on us when it came to love for and indentity with their high school team. But, I enjoyed it and really desire to find a way to get the rest of the story, since we now know that Herren was a heroin addict who made it to the NBA but surely didn’t live up to his potential because of his drug addiction. ***3 of 5 stars
