La tragedia de Len Bias

I knew his tragedy reading Larry's biography but never seen so far footage about his basketball skills.

Well, this documentary helps to watch Bias in action and if today, the usual question is "who is the next Michael Jordan", actually, this player ranked then among the best contender (they even competed against each other in ACC conference and in a great game, it seems that Bias won then). Surely the Celtics would have been totally extraordinary pairing Bias and Bird and it's no surprise that those two basketball legends were the first to send flowers at his death (proving that sports icons are at first well educated!).

Sadly, this legend died and the documentary becomes a bit blurry with the facts: alcohol, cocaine, overdose? In a way, it's funny to see that all people involved think they aren't in any way responsible for what happens: a future NBA star dies taking drug with his teammates in the campus and it's not the fault of his friends (they didn't force him) not the responsibility of the coach (it was after draft) or the dean (in those times, drugs were not so bad)! Sure, Bias has paid highly for a bad choice (what's about having fun and taking drugs?) but his partner Tribble isn't white hands if it was him who brought the drugs in the room and his later conviction as a dealer isn't coincidence. I really don't know how to take the premonitions of his parents but to bury one child and then another is the biggest devastation in parenthood.

At last, for the little story, his teammates have later played in the France championship and have been good names then (Derrick Lewis, Tony Massenburg).