Just finished watching the ESPN 30on30 special about the last days of Len Bias. Bias was a basketball star from the University of Maryland in the mid-80's and was second player chosen in the 1986 draft by the Boston Celtics. 48 hours after he was drafted, he was dead of an apparent cocaine overdose.

What if he had made a different choice that night, and what if he had lived to play in the NBA? Would the addition of a young Bias to the aging Celtics roster be enough to keep them in contention through the late 80's and early 90's? Would he have been a complement to Bird who was suffering from his own injury problems at the time? Enough to contend with the Pistons and Lakers in that era? Could they have challenged the Bulls in their first "three-peat?"

He was such a consistenly bright and routinely spectacular college player, most fans thought he was truly a "can't miss" NBA star.

tony b.