I'm old enough to remember when Len Bias passed away it was a HUGE story

He took drugs if I remember and passed away

I was in the D.C. Superior Court the day I heard about the death. I friend of mine, a court room clerk, was horribly upset. I found out that he was Len Bias' cousin. Very sad. Bias had a terrific future had he not experimented with drugs.

Should've outlawed the vax then and there

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Scared me away from ever using cocaine. I think it was the first time he tried it when he died.

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Not just you. Drug use went down for the next seven years.

Started coming back as people came of age who were too young to remember.

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I'm old enough to remember when Len Bias passed away it was a HUGE story

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Compare the news cycle and the social media from then to now. That adds to the scale of his passing.

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Today we shrug our shoulders every other day when another healthy young athlete drops dead.

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Compare the news cycle and the social media from then to now. That is why the ho-hum attitude exits.

It’s probably because you boomers only had 1 channel

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Today we shrug our shoulders every other day when another healthy young athlete drops dead.

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Yep, NBA lottery picks are dropping dead left and right of drug overdoses and nobody...

Oh, this was yet another political Covid post... douche.

I’m old enough to remember when his dad was born.
What’s your point?

When has there been another time in history where an All-American selected #2 overall by the current NBA Champion unexpectedly died 2 days after being picked? It was covered as a big event …because it WAS a big event.

I, like (presumably) you, think the pandemic was overblown. But to compare the newsworthiness of Bias’s death to that of obscure athletes largely unknown to anyone but their friends and family is a terrible comparison

It was the jab... Of shite he put up his nose//