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Leonard K. "Len"(also "Lenny") Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) was a college basketball player who died of a cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. Bias was the second player selected in the draft, after Brad Daugherty of the Cleveland Cavaliers. A district court and court of appeals found that Bias was a drug user.

From Landover, Maryland, Bias attended the University of Maryland (UM) where he became a star player and an All-American. Wearing number 34, he impressed basketball fans with his amazing leaping ability and his ability to create plays. During his college career Bias was comparable to only one other player, Michael Jordan. Larry Bird considered Jordan to be the best player ever, but from the tapes of Bias at Maryland, he believed that Bias could have been even better.

Bias died in a dormitory on the University of Maryland - College Park campus. Later, his death would be featured as part of an anti-drug media campaign. Years later, on December 11, 1990, Bias's younger brother Jay, a promising high school basketball player, was shot to death in a dispute in the parking lot of Prince George's Plaza, a Maryland shopping mall.

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