Leonard Kevin "Len" Bias (born November 18, 1963) is a businessman and former American basketball player, generally regarded as the best basketball player of his generation and one of the most dominant offensive NBA players of all time. He was instrumental in popularizing the NBA outside of the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. After a four-year career at Maryland, which he helped lead to two Final Four appearances (1984 and 1986), he was drafted with the spending the first decade of his career with the Tacoma SuperSonics (1986-1996), where he won five straight Western Conference championships (1988-1992) and four straight NBA Finals (1989-1992), during which he won three consecutive Finals MVP awards (1990-1992). In 1996, a blockbuster trade sent him to the Miami Heat, which he he