Word: len
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Less than two days after being selected first by the world-champion Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association's college draft last June, University of Maryland Superstar Len Bias, 22, died of cocaine intoxication. A grand jury investigating his death has already indicted several of the young men who were with him on the last night of his life. The jurors last week began looking into a range of broader questions about the pervasiveness of drug abuse on the Terrapin team and the manner in which the university and Coach Lefty Driesell administered the varsity basketball program. The university...
...This is Len Bias . . . There's no way he can die. Seriously, sir, please come quick." That was Brian Tribble's desperate plea to a 911 operator as his friend, University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, lay dying of cocaine intoxication in his dormitory on June 19. Last week Tribble surrendered to authorities after a grand jury indicted him on narcotics charges that included possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug. Tribble, 24, a former Maryland junior-varsity basketball player, is suspected of providing Bias with the coke that killed...
...younger Americans who could never afford the drug in its more expensive powdered form. One study reported that cocaine has spread to as many as one-third of America's college students. Since 1980, cocaine-related deaths have tripled. The deaths last month of University of Maryland Basketball Player Len Bias, 22, and Cleveland Browns Defensive Back Don Rogers, 23, added to the sense of urgency...
...Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, what he called a "dream within a dream." The next day he made a lavish deal to wear Reebok shoes. On the third day, he died. No dream is emptier than death at 22, but the cruel death last week of Len Bias, the All- America from Maryland, got crueler. Cocaine was implied, maybe an experimental first taste. Friends considered even that unthinkable, but if the substance found in his car and system was cocaine, then in some dazzling order more rapid than a heartbeat, Bias must have experienced all the shades...
...look at it this way," Celtics President Red Auerbach said gently, "Len Bias achieved two of his goals, to be drafted high and by the Celtics." Saying Bias will "always be a member of the Celtics," Auerbach delivered the unused jersey No. 30 to the family. "Bias had a natural ability that would have made him a consummate Celtic . . . The picture of health, the perfect athlete, 6 ft. 8 in. in his stocking feet . . . The best college player in America . . . One of the most happy people you'd ever want to see . . . He could jump through the roof." Like picks...