At 6:32 a.m., Bias’ friend Brian Tribble frantically called 911. “It’s Len Bias,” he screamed to the dispatcher. “He passed out. His body his shaking. You have to get here fast. You have to save him.” At 8:50 a.m., the 22-year-old was pronounced dead at Leland Memorial Hospital. In an autopsy days later, Dr. John E. Smialek attributed Bias’ death to a cocaine overdose, “which interrupted the normal electrical control of his heartbeat, resulting in the sudden onset of seizures and cardiac arrest.”