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To: gate2wire
Man it's been 20 years already?

I remember growing up watching this and me and my buddies were talking about Bias being the heir apparent to Larry Bird. And that Cleveland Browns player dying of a cocaine overdose days later. This was at the height of the cocaine/crack cocaine epidemic.

7 posted on 06/19/2006 12:12:00 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Never got the chance to play with Lenny.
Good friend of mine did play in a college all-star game with him. Says he was a nice guy.


10 posted on 06/19/2006 12:16:38 PM PDT by gate2wire
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Charles Barkley: Former NBA star, 1992-93 MVP

"I'd have played against him for the next 14 years. I would have been in my prime and he would have been in his. I'll never forget what he looked like. He was a 'Wow!' player. When Maryland played and was on television, I watched. It was like, 'I need to watch this guy; I'll be seeing him real soon.' . . . It was just shocking. Thing is, cocaine was huge then. My brother had been in and out of rehab. . . . It was a popular drug at the time. And guys I was playing against, like John Lucas and Michael Ray Richardson and John Drew had done cocaine. I was thinking: 'What the hell is up with this cocaine? I should try this once to see what it was all about.' Then, we heard the reports were that Bias only used it once . . . that it was his first time. When I heard that, it scared me to death . . . scared the daylights out of me. It scared me into not trying it even once, not going anywhere near it."

12 posted on 06/19/2006 12:19:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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