[ Back In June Of ’86, A Basketball Player Named Len Bias Was A
Man That You Never Knew ]
[ You Read That He Was A Phenomenal College Basketball Player ]
[ Who Got Picked By The Boston Celtics When They Had Pick (#2) ]
[ In That Years NBA Draft ]
[ When The Commissioner Announced His Name ]
[ Nobody Laughed ]
[ So Then ]
[ Len ]
[ Went To A Party That Night With Some Friends ]
[ He Made A Fatal Mistake With One Single Choice ]
[ Nobody Talked To Him In A Reasonable Voice ]
[ The Kind ]
[ That Would Have Tried To Change His Mind ]
[ He Got Talked Into Snorting A Line Of Cocaine ]
[ It Went Straight To His Brain ]
[ His Friends Didn’t Lie ]
[ It Instantly Gave Him A High ]
[ But Then The Cocaine Went Into Overload ]
[ & Made His Heart Explode ]
[ He Was Dead Before ]
[ He Hit The Floor ]
[ The Drug Was Something That You Tried About (4) Times In
The Years Prior ]
[ It Felt Like Such A Nice High ]
[ But Thankfully The Need For It Didn’t Become Dire ]
[ Both Of Your Blood Siblings Were Addicted To Drugs &
Alcohol @ (1) Time ]
[ Your Older Sister Would Spend Her Last Dime ]
[ For Her Next Fix ]
[ If You Wanted To See The Effects Of More Than (40) Years
Of Hard Drug Use ]
[ Just Look @ Her Pics ]
[ You Knew That Addiction Runs In Your Family History In
The Past ]
[ It Seems Like She Took One Taste Of Something ]
[ & She Got Addicted Really Fast ]
[ The Night That Your Biological Father Came Home Drunk ]
[ & Then He Shot Himself In His Head After Trying To Murder
His Girlfriend ]
[ Your Heart Sunk ]
[ That Should Have Been A Huge Warning Sign For You
& Your Sister @ A Very Young Age ]
[ You Had Front Row Seats To The Stage ]
[ Watching The Ultimate Act Of Rage ]
[ So Your Handful Of Tastes With Cocaine Was Walking
A Fine ]
[ Line ]
[ When You Read That Sports Illustrated During That Month
Of June ]
[ It Woke You Up Out Of Your Personal Cocoon ]
[ It Showed What Drugs Can Do ]
[ If That Could Happen To A Finely Tuned Athlete ]
[ That Could Happen To You Too ]
[ The Death Of Len Bias Probably Saved You From A Possible
Life Of Drug Use ]
[ Thankfully It Never Got To The Level Of Drug Abuse ]
[ It Is Sad To Say That A Death Saved Your Life ]
[ Reading About Len Bias’s Death Turned On A Very Bright
Light ]
[ A Light, That Has Yet To Fade ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(627)▪︎[ Thank You, Len Bias … 7•14•2020 ]
[ There Once Was This Young Man Who Was Exceptional
@ Basketball ]
[ But In 1986 ]
[ Len Bias Became MY Wake-Up Call ]
[ The Night That He Went #2 In The NBA Draft He Failed To
Use His Brain ]
[ Because He Went To A Party With Some Friends ]
[ & Smoked Some Crack Cocaine ]
[ He Found That His Body Had A Sensitivity To That Illegal
Substance ]
[ & It Proved To Be The Difference ]
[ Between Good & Bad Health ]
[ Life & Death ]
[ Poverty & Wealth ]
[ His Heart Stopped & Then Exploded ]
[ When The Paramedics Arrived ]
[ He Had Already Coded ]
[ Flat Lined, On The Floor ]
[ They Put Him On A Gurney ]
[ & Wheeled Him Out The Door ]
[ Nobody Waved ]
[ As They Took Him To His Grave ]
[ I Read The Article About This In The Sports Illustrated
That I Got That Week ]
[ I Could Not Speak ]
[ & My Legs Got Wobbly & Weak ]
[ Before This I Had Tried Cocaine 4 Times Maybe 5 ]
[ After I Read That Article ]
[ I Felt Lucky To Still Be Alive! ]
[ If A Finely Tuned Athelete’s Heart Could Do That ]
[ How Did Mine Not Stop? ]
[ When It Is Covered With Fat? ]
[ I Did Not Even Have To Think Too Hard About It ]
[ I Never Wanted To Get ]
[ To Where It Became A Deadly Habit ]
[ Enough Was Enough ]
[ I Never Ever Again Snorted That Stuff ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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