WHAT IF Len Bias & Reggie Lewis Had Lived? Bob Ryan’s Alternate Celtics Dynasty

What happens to the Boston Celtics dynasty if Len Bias survives and Reggie Lewis never collapses? Bob Ryan — one of the greatest basketball minds alive — breaks down the alternate timeline in detail. Where does Bias fit on those Bird/McHale teams? How close was Reggie Lewis to true stardom? And what would it have meant for the Celtics’ dynasty window?

Bob Ryan was there the night Len Bias dropped 40 on Duke. He was 10 feet away when Reggie Lewis collapsed. This is firsthand history.

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👇 Do you think the Celtics would have won more titles with Bias?

LenBias 0:00 — What if Len Bias had lived?
2:30 — Bob Ryan was there when Bias dropped 40 on Duke
6:00 — Where does Bias fit on the ’86 Celtics?
9:00 — Reggie Lewis — how good could he have been?
13:00 — Bob Ryan was 10 feet away when Reggie collapsed
16:00 — Reggie Lewis’ underrecruited backstory at Northeastern

On this episode, Bob Ryan and Gary Tanguay play a game of 'what if?' and rewrite Celtics history.

Bob theorizes how good Reggie Lewis and Len Bias would have been had they not tragically passed away. Bias was an All-American star at the University of Maryland who died of a fatal cocaine overdose on June 19, 1986, just two days after being drafted to Boston. Reggie Lewis, the captain of the Celtics, tragically died of sudden cardiac death on July 27, 1993, during an off-season practice at Brandeis University.

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