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30 Years in 30 Days: Day 8- The Shadow of Len Bias

This was an interesting and perplexing one to me. It was written by Scoop Jackson in Issue 15 of Slam Magazine back in 1996. Here’s the jist of it:

ANTOINE WALKER DOESN’T FEEL IT. HE’S TOO CLOSE. But this is the cost of being good, possibly great.
…And with the second pick of the 1986 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select…Len Bias of the University of Maryland.
Ten years ago, Commissioner David Stern stood at the podium and said those words. Bias died of a cocaine overdose the day after the draft, and never played a minute for the Celtics.