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Len Bias

1963 - 1986

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Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 – June 19, 1986) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Len Bias has received more than 5,042,705 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Len Bias is the 340th most popular basketball player (down from 300th in 2019), the 11,795th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,596th in 2019) and the 199th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 38.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Len Bias ranks 340 out of 1,268Before him are Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, Valeri Tikhonenko, Darrall Imhoff, Sergio Llull, and Kevin Love. After him are Mehmet Okur, Danko Cvjetićanin, Fabricio Oberto, Calvin Murphy, Erik Spoelstra, and Lisa Leslie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Len Bias ranks 543Before him are Wei Wei, Uwe-Jens Mey, T. B. Joshua, Igor Astapkovich, Zemfira Meftahatdinova, and Damian Chapa. After him are Milan Luhový, Zina Garrison, Danko Cvjetićanin, John Ventimiglia, Martin Brunner, and Chanoch Nissany. Among people deceased in 1986, Len Bias ranks 256Before him are Igor Tselovalnikov, Smita Patil, Chuck McKinley, Anna Neagle, Bessie Head, and Ted Knight. After him are Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Jerry Paris, Martin Gabel, Paul Frees, Adolph Caesar, and Gordon MacRae.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Len Bias ranks 11,795 out of 18,182Before him are Mike Dunleavy (1961), Ogden Nash (1902), Jason Wiles (1970), Damian Chapa (1963), Ruth Etting (1896), and Derek Richardson (1976). After him are Gary Jules (1969), Mike DeWine (1947), Lee Garlington (1953), Guinevere Turner (1968), Philip Carey (1925), and Zina Garrison (1963).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Len Bias ranks 199Before him are Bill Wheatley (1909), Sam Perkins (1961), Blake Griffin (1989), DeAndre Jordan (1988), Darrall Imhoff (1938), and Kevin Love (1988). After him are Calvin Murphy (1948), Erik Spoelstra (1970), Lisa Leslie (1972), Alex Groza (1926), Bobby Wanzer (1921), and Bobby Jones (1951).