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Haywood retired in 1983. Across 15 seasons in the ABA and NBA, he averaged 20.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game. According to Haywood’s piece in People, he entered a California rehabilitation center in 1984. He’s been sober for over three decades. “To see all of that go down the drain over some little powder, it’ll break your heart, it was unfair,” he said in 2016.