08-25-2009, 11:07 AM
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A Dude
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Age: 45
Posts: 12,439
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Re: Remembering Len Bias
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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
That's one way of looking at it. The other is this. Suppose he lived that night after using cocaine. Who's to say that wouldn't have been the beginning of a terrible descent into drug abuse for Bias and his career would have been a shell of what it could have been like other great who couldn't overcome rampant drug abuse. Guys like Michael Ray Richardson and Roy Tarpley.
I'm just saying he was absolutely dominant as a college player, and in a way it's nice to think "Poor guy could have been one of the greatest ever if only he had lived." At the same time though, it's not too hard to think it might have been just as sad a story had he lived.
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Good post. I'd agree.
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