Len Bias Dies of Cocaine Overdose
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Less than two days after being selected by the defending champion Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft, Len Bias flew in to Maryland from Boston at around 11:00 PM, and ate crabs with some teammates and a member of the football team. He left at approximately 2 a.m. on the 18th, drove to an off-campus gathering, which he attended briefly before returning to his dorm at 3:00 a.m. Bias, who consumed large quantities of cocaine at some earlier point, was talking with teammate Terry Long when he collapsed sometime between 6:25 and 6:32. According to Bias's sister (who only had a secondhand account of the story), the player was sitting on a couch and leaned back as though he was going to sleep, but instead began to have a seizure. Bias died of a cardiac arrhythmia, related to the cocaine overdose.
