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Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player for the Maryland Terrapins. In the last of his four years playing for Maryland, he was named a consensus first-team All-American.
Jun 21, 2023 · Len Bias turned from feel-good story to cautionary tale in the space of two fateful days in 1986. The young basketball player's death set in train two imponderable questions that sparked ...
Jun 6, 2023 · On June 19, 1986, one of college basketball’s most promising young players, Len Bias, died from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose. Two days earlier, he had been selected as the second overall pick in the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. He was 22 years old.
Jun 26, 2020 · Former Maryland star Len Bias was No. 2 pick in the 1986 NBA draft, but not even two full days later, he was dead. His "what-if" story still hurts.
Jun 15, 2016 · Len Bias and his legacy (were) just basketball, and a lot of people don't know the impact his death caused — in so many peoples' lives around him and (those of) people who didn't know him or...
Jun 19, 2016 · Bias, who had shown so much promise at Maryland, was targeted for years by Red Auerbach as the Next Great Celtics player, the one who would take the franchise past the Larry Bird era. Instead, he...
Jun 19, 2021 · Maryland star's death in 1986 has lingering effects on basketball and the criminal justice system today.
Jun 25, 1986 · University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of “cocaine intoxication” after ingesting an unusually pure dose of the drug that stopped his heart within minutes, Maryland’s chief ...
Jun 2, 2021 · In 1986, Len Bias’s death shocked the sports world. 35 years later, we’re reexamining his life and legacy as one of basketball’s brightest stars and greatest losses. This is ‘What If?
Jun 20, 1986 · Len Bias, who was the second selection over all and the first by the Boston Celtics in the professional draft of college basketball players Tuesday, died suddenly early...
