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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: OUT OF BOUNDS-- CHRIS WASHBURN FORMER NBA
Description: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Bounds-Broken-Dreams-Redemption-ebook/dp/B0F5JZSST7/A story of extraordinary talent, devastating loss, and ultimate triumph.Highly promising basketball player Chris Washburn was selected third overall in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. But a chance encounter with famed basketball player Len Bias introduced him to crack cocaine.Soon, the overwhelming temptations of fame, fortune, and drugs derailed his promising career. And by 1989, after failing his third drug test, Chris was banned from the NBA. His life then spiraled into addiction, homelessness, incarceration, and near-death experiences.Yet, in 2000...