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Lefty Driesell On What Happened The Night Len Bias Died

Lefty Driesell left Maryland in the wake of Len Bias’s 1986 death and has never had much to say about it, perhaps understandably.

On the one hand, he has little to gain from talking about it and on the other, despite his courtside bluster and posturing as a bit of a country buffoon, he’s a decent man at heart, someone who once charged into a burning building to save 10 helpless children in the middle of the night.

He couldn’t save Bias though and it’s clear from this article that the loss of his brightest star at Maryland still hurts.