# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-bias
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:12.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/len-bias"
name: "Len Bias"
slug: "len-bias"
description: "Leonard Kevin Bias was an American college basketball player for the Maryland Terrapins. In the last of his four years playing for Maryland, he was named a consensus first-team All-American. Two days after being selected by the Boston Celtics with the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft, Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose. In 2021, Bias was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player (1963–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chip_Engelland%2C_Duke_Chronicle_1983-02-22.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1963-11-18"
deathDate: "1986-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.50610607742721
  historical:           18.913252
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 186
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1379332/"
    handle:    "nm1379332"
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    title: "Len Bias"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump