Another mid- 80's to mid 90's NBA former player dead by heart failure.

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9 years ago 03/18/2015 3:41pm EDT

RIP Jack Haley, Anthony Mason, Christian Weip, Jerome Kersey, Caldwell Jones, Roy Tarpley.

All of them played between mid 80's to mid 90's. It's coincidence? or it's the result of rampant drug abuse in that NBA-NCAA DI era?

I know that drug policies in NBA collective bargaining agreement (CBA) were too soft in the 80's and 90's...but what substances were allowed? nandrolone? steroids? HGH?

There was EPO in the NBA during the 90's?

I'm still shocked by relative young former NBA players death recently, like Wayman Tisdale, Maurice Lucas, Dennis Johnson, Orlando Woolridge, Manute Bol, etc.

9 years ago 03/18/2015 4:14pm EDT

re: Ben L Wrong

Not to implicate anyone you named in your post but cocaine was the drug of choice in the early 80s. One day I picked up a player at his hotel to visit a shoe company and he was "busy" getting ready. I have little doubt he was snorting coke.

9 years ago 03/18/2015 6:24pm EDT

re: toomuchmoneylittlecommonsense

toomuchmoneylittlecommonsense wrote:
Not to implicate anyone you named in your post but cocaine was the drug of choice in the early 80s. One day I picked up a player at his hotel to visit a shoe company and he was "busy" getting ready. I have little doubt he was snorting coke.

Well, I remember Len Bias. He was going to be a legend in the NBA.

9 years ago 03/18/2015 8:31pm EDT

re: Ben L Wrong

perhaps there is a correlation between extreme height and heart disease

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