Len Bias

Len Bias was a young basketball player who died from a cardiac arrhythmia, just 2 days after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA draft. On June19, after attending an off-campus gathering, he returned to his residence hall and was talking with the teammate when he collapsed on the couch. It was thought that he was sitting and leaning back as to go into the sleep, but instead he was unconscious and was not breathing. He was carried to the hospital through ambulance where he was announced dead of a cardiac arrhythmia, most likely reason was the overdose of cocaine, which he had ingested at some earlier point.