Fighting Columbus - Leon "Fabulous Leon" Smith

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James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

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4.9 • 25.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

This week, we tell the story of a man who never had much to call his own. Neglected, and abandoned at a young age, he grew up with no family. Luckily for him, he had basketball skills. Enough skills to make him only the 11th player to be drafted to the NBA, out of high school. Only problem is, he wasn't prepared for the league, or life. Next thing you know, he's covered in green war paint, and telling cops that he's "an Indian, fighting Columbus"!!

Be found wandering the streets at 5 years old, be drafted into the NBA, right out of high school, and don't take a break up with your high school sweetheart very well with Len"Fabulous Leon" Smith!!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome back to crime and sports.
0:24.7	Yay!
0:26.3	Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy.
0:28.3	Yay indeed.
0:29.2	My name is James Petrigallo.
0:30.7	I'm here with my co-host.
0:32.0	I'm Jimmy Wiseman.
0:33.7	Thank you, folks, so much for joining us today on a more.
0:37.4	We have more crime in sports.
0:38.8	I was going to say another.
0:39.7	More.
0:40.3	Who knows?
0:40.7	It's more.
0:41.3	It's a lot and it's fun.
0:42.9	We're going to get into this again.
0:44.3	Today we have a basketball player who never quite made it into bad.
0:48.2	Never quite made it.
0:49.4	It's pretty, it's kind of a sad story, but that turns.
1:11.1	Mostly all are. Kind of, yeah. I mean, they're all sad for somebody. Yeah, they're all sad for somebody. They're all sad for somebody. We're going to do a few more one-parters, then we're going to do another multi-part episode. We've got a few of those ahead. We're going to do a Don King episode. We're going to do a Billy Martin episode.
1:13.4	I can't wait for the Billy Martin episode. That's going to be amazing. That guy made Joe Pepitone look like a fucking choir boy. So that's going to be a lot of fun. We'll get into that. Before we do, though, head over to shut up and give me murder.com. get all your merchandise for all of our shows,
1:09.1	your stupid opinions,
1:10.3	crime and sports,
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