len bias

[Jinky]

Len Bias would have been 40 years old yesterday.

Sad really.

 

[knvb]

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Name sounds familiar...what's the story?

 

[Yoda]

Info

If Jinky is posting it, it must have to do with a Celtic..........Boston Celtic that is.

Basketball Phenom drafted by Celtics who OD'ed at the prime of his career.

 

[BlazeArmy]

Prime of his career?

He never played in NBA. he O'd between draft and first season. I guess his dying does make that the prime of his career though

 

[Yoda]

True

I guess his career never really go started.


How about the Prime of his life before the start of his career.

Talk about hard times. Was reading a story and Lonise (Len's Mom) had a second son die in a drive by shooting incident 4 years later.

 

[Yoda]

More article

I guess that's what new draftees did back then.

For some ballplayers, it was too late. Bias' draft class, long regarded as the worst all-around in NBA history, contained three other top 10 picks - Chris Washburn, William Bedford and Roy Tarpley - who washed out of the league within several seasons because of alcohol or drug problems.

 

[BlazeArmy]

Roy Tarpley i believe had 7 drug suspensions with the NBA had kept coming back. He's the Steve Howe of roundball

 

[Yoda]

Yup

Finally got banned from NBA and played in CBA instead.