It’s a shame on many levels that Len Bias died after being drafted by the Boston Celtics. The first sorrow is for his family and most of all his mother would soon lose another son, this time to a bullet.
On the more mundane basketball level, Bias would have taken the Celtics dynasty another decade into the future and he would have taken his ACC rivalry with Jordan to the NBA.
And that would have been epic.
In this video, we see that Jordan and Bias first met at 5-Star Camp, Howard Garfinkel’s labor of love that predated the AAU system and which was in many ways superior to it.