30 Years in 30 Days: Day 11- The Replacement

I will go to my grave saying there isn’t any doubt in my mind that, as good as the Lakers were in ’87, if the Celtics had Bias. . . . I mean, they took them to six games without Bias! With McHale’s broken foot and the battered guys and all the minutes they were playing and they didn’t have any extra oomph and the bench consisted of guys like Darren Daye and Fred Roberts. Are you shittin’ me? If they had Len Bias? C’mon. It would’ve changed everything.--- Bob Ryan Eventually the Celtics had to get a guy to fill Bias' spot on the team and the hope was to get someone who played similarly. (TB Tangent: Wishful-thinking picking up someone off the scrapheap to emulate Len's skills. Reminds me of when the Bulls filled in for Michael Jordan with Pete Myers when MJ retired in 1993).

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