Publisher's Synopsis
InThey Call Me Bad News,Barnes and award-winning sports writer Ed Miller chronicle the downfall of one of basketball’s legendary talents. For the first time ever, Barnes reveals in detail his first hand accounts of his no-holds-barred existence. Though this book is the story of professional sports and its culture of celebrity gone wrong, it is also one of redemption. Sober and active in the same community where he first learned to rob as a teenager, Barnes has plumbed the depths of society and lived to tell it all.