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Maryland Basketball Legend Len Bias To Be Inducted Into National Collegiate Basketball Hall Of Fame

COLLEGE PARK, MD. (WJZ) --Maryland Basketball legend Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bias died of a cocaine overdose in 1986, just two days after becoming the No. 2 player taken in the NBA draft.

Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias was a first-team All-American college basketball forward at the University of Maryland.

He was inducted into UMD's Hall of Fame in 2014.

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