When somebody mentions Len Bias, three things usually come to mind – dominance at the University of Maryland, 2nd draft pick by the Celtics in 1986, and a shocking death caused by a cocaine overdose.

Now 34 years since his tragic death, the legend of Len Bias has been well-told several times over: A generational talent at the University of Maryland, selected second overall by the Boston Celtics in ...

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Lonise Bias, mother of Len Bias and longtime youth advocate, dies at 77.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward Len Bias was born in Landover, Maryland in 1963. Bias would attend his hometown University of Maryland after graduating from high school, where he ...

The University of Maryland lost one of its most legendary athletes when Len Bias passed away in 1986, two days after the Boston Celtics picked him second in the NBA Draft. It was a tragedy the ...

Washington – It has been 30 years since the death of Len Bias, one of the University of Maryland’s greatest basketball stars. It was June 1986. Len Bias was 22 and had just been drafted by the Boston ...

In 1963, Darryl Hill sat on Maryland’s team bus as he arrived in North Carolina. As the first Black man to play football at the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference — and the first to receive ...

Because of his premature death 20 years ago today, Bias has become a bit of a folk hero, particularly in his native D.C. Metro area. His game was surely memorable, a spectacular combination of grace, ...

BALTIMORE | When he completed his extraordinary basketball career at Maryland, the only question surrounding Len Bias was whether he would dominate the NBA in the same fashion he ruled the Atlantic ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Maryland basketball star Len Bias, who was chosen No. 2 by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft before dying days later of a drug overdose, was chosen for induction into ...