Legendary basketball player Len Bias is being inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, 35 years after his death, but his family and fans are still grieving over the fact they never saw him live his dream.
The basketball phenom tragically died from a cocaine overdose in his college dorm, days after he was drafted by the Boston Celtics in 1986.is being inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, 35 years after his death, but his family and fans are still grieving over the fact they never saw him live his dream.
Bias was drafted No. 2 overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA draft, but two days later he died from a drug overdose. The athlete was doing cocaine with a few of his fellow teammates at his dorm at the University of Maryland, when he collapsed, had a seizure and went into cardiac arrhythmia. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. He was 22 years old.Maryland basketball star Len Bias poses for a photo taken at the University of Virginia in an undated photo.
She said she didn't feel like she could share her dark thoughts with anyone else in the family, so she would"just start weeping." She said,"I couldn't stop.""So when Len died June 19, 1986, the cries stopped," she said."And it was like, it's over. It's over even though he is gone. I have lost my son. All of the emotional trauma that I was going through, it was like it ended.
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