Four-time NBA Champion Horace Grant says Len Bias had no holes in his game.

33 years after Len Bias's death, a writer's daily reminder of what we lost and why it's still so hard to let go originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com The hat hangs in the back hall alongside a ...

When somebody mentions Len Bias, three things usually come to mind – dominance at the University of Maryland, 2nd draft pick by the Celtics in 1986, and a shocking death caused by a cocaine overdose.

Because of his premature death 20 years ago today, Bias has become a bit of a folk hero, particularly in his native D.C. Metro area. His game was surely memorable, a spectacular combination of grace, ...

On June 17, 1986, the Boston Celtics, the reigning NBA champions, selected Len Bias as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden. Although he was just 22 years old at the ...

In 1986, the luck of the Irish seemed to be shining brightly on the Boston Celtics. They had just finished the 1985-1986 season with yet another crown and were looking to add more talent to their ...

Basketball star Len Bias' 1986 cocaine overdose sparked a panic, stoked by false rumors and a high-stakes political campaign that culminated in a law that swept thousands of low-level drug offenders — ...

It was not the kind of crime that makes headlines: a shooting at a Royal Farms in Odenton on Nov. 13. The victims, a man and a woman, survived. Police think the shooting began as an argument and ...

In 1963, Darryl Hill sat on Maryland’s team bus as he arrived in North Carolina. As the first Black man to play football at the university and the Atlantic Coast Conference — and the first to receive ...