Fans of basketball and Bias were also greatly affected and his death made a lot of them not try cocaine. For example, Greg Abel, an avid Terrapins fan said he had never done cocaine because whenever he saw it, it made him think of the death of Len Bias (Ungrady, 2011, p. 18). Ungrady gives more and more stories like these throughout his book and it shows the power that Bias’s death truly had. Horace Balmer, who became the head of security for the NBA in 1985, said, “A lot of kids who had the opportunity to use drugs chose not to use drugs, [his death] was an eye-opener” (Ungrady, 2011, p. 161). On an individual level, Bias’s death potentially saved a lot of lives.
With all the changes and movements that Bias’s death brought, the rate of use
