BY MATT SUGAM
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
PISCATAWAY – It was standing room only as people lined the wall around the couple hundred seats that had been set up.
He stood there, white-knuckled while gripping the podium, telling his cautionary tale. It's a story he has told countless times.
Their eyes were locked on the once upon a time star. Their ears perked as they intently listened to his life story, hooked on every word like he once was on drugs.
As Chris Herren spoke of his fall from grace due to his drug addiction, Rutgers basketball team was transfixed, soaking up his message like sponges.
This wasn’t just anyone telling giving them an hour talk Sunday evening inside the Busch campus visiting center on about the pitfalls of drugs. It was someone who was once in thier basketball shoes.
