Hey, everybody. We are here and we're very excited to share with you a clip from an awesome new podcast. We think you're going to love. It's called Death at the Wing.

It's incredible. It's about Len Bias, who's one of the all-time great players who never really got to be one of the all-time great players.

Yeah, the whole series focuses on a number. There's a bunch of basketball players that died in the 80s and 90s, like promising young players that never really got to have careers.

The whole series is not only to talk about basketball, but also contextualizes everything with what was going on in America at the time, and it's by Adam McKay, who is the best done nothing but incredible stuff from like SNL, Anchorman, comedy classics that you love all the way to direct the big short vice.

I mean, succession, Sam, your favorite show. It's the best show on television. It's so fun. It's twisted. It's funny. It's the best. This is really, really great.

No, this rocks. We just listened to the Len Bias episode. We got to do it. Hey, sorry, folks. We got the whole episode. We got to listen to the whole thing. It's unbelievable.

I really, I mean, I grew up a University of Maryland basketball fan and it kind of cleared up things I didn't even know about. It's so much of the Len Bias story and so much of these stories about young basketball players that got involved with drugs have become tall tales that this just tells you exactly what happened, puts it in the context, let you know about the politicians on both sides that have ruined our country in the ways that they did it.

And it was, it was just incredible. So yeah, what you're about to hear right now is the clip from the Len Bias episode, who was drafted number two was going to be, you know, some people say it was going to be Jordan's rival potentially.

And drafted number two by the world champion Celtics. I mean, it's crazy. This is like so unfair. So unfair. It's, it really is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I mean, it's like literally if imaginative Zion had gone to the Lakers with LeBron. I mean, that's that's kind of like what was going on when when Len Bias got drafted and his death just kind of started this whole, there's like a ripple effect. And so what you're going to hear now is a clip from that episode, which the whole thing is excellent, but enjoy this five minute clip so you can get a taste of what we're talking about.

He is the best athlete in my opinion in the whole draft, and he's going to really help this ball club.

The Celtics hadn't just picked a good player. They'd secured their future. Larry Bird was just months shy of his 30th birthday. This was an error where longevity was based on how many packs of cools you smoked today.

And Kevin McCale, he had entered the league looking like he was 38 years old and played a bruising physical style of play. Same thing with Robert Parish and most of their lineup.

This was a tough team that had plenty of bangs and bruises on him.

So the Celtics needed a jolt of energy and youth to secure their next generation of championship rings. And that was going to be Len Bias.

See, things like this just didn't happen in sports. You don't get to win a title and draft a superstar in the same year, not without cutting some sort of deal with the devil.

An hour box name was read. That's uncalled for. I'm sorry to the hour back family. I'm not in any way implying he worshiped the devil.

But the point is everyone wanted a piece of Len Bias, even the local big shots came calling for their photo up.

Tip O'Neill, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, a veritable holy trinity of Boston politicians had read our back on the phone within hours, begging for their state's newest superstar to pay them a visit at the Capitol.

Bias may have just become a Celtic, but he was already being town royalty.

As a matter of fact, you know, Larry Bird said that if we draft bias, he's going to come up to the rookie camp.

That's right. He was very, very high on bias as Casey was and Jimmy and they're all high on him. He's the guy we wanted. We got him.

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