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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 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 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 19, 2016 · In life, Len Bias was basketball's next great hope, contender for a crown that went instead to Michael Jordan. In death, he became a trigger for the war on drugs.
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 19, 2021 · Maryland star's death in 1986 has lingering effects on basketball and the criminal justice system today.
Jun 19, 2016 · Bias, who would have turned 53 in November, was 22 when he collapsed and died 30 years ago on the morning of June 19. The shocking story became a cautionary tale about the dangers of cocaine and...
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 ...
Nov 10, 1986 · The cocaine death of Len Bias, the Maryland basketball star, has prompted criticism of the school's athletic policies—and last week led to coach Lefty Driesell's resignation
Jun 19, 2023 · Two days after Len Bias, one of Maryland's all-time great college basketball players, was drafted into the NBA, he suddenly died.
