One of the fascinating things about Without Bias, the ESPN documentary about Len Bias that debuts Tuesday night (review here), is the frank, matter-of-fact way that Bias's friend Brian Tribble talks about the night that Bias died. Some people said Tribble killed Bias by providing him with the cocaine that he overdosed on, but Tribble was acquitted when he went on trial for charges relating to Bias's death. Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, later, Tribble talks openly about that night.
Tribble did a live chat on ESPN.com Tuesday in which he said he shouldn't be in any way blamed for Bias's death. Tribble's comments included:
You always have to live with being accused of supplying (the) cocaine that killed him. Still to this day, that stigma is attached to me. ...Several years after Bias died, Tribble was sentenced to 10 years in prison for dealing cocaine, but he now says he's a changed person who has put his drug-related mistakes behind him and gotten a second chance in life. How sad that Len Bias never got that second chance.
I felt like it was just (tragic) and I didn't have a lot of time to grieve, because I was going through an attack of not just the justice system, but the media. It was a terrible time to go through in my life. I couldn't imagine what his family was going through.
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11-04-2009 @ 4:01AM
God's Messenger said...
Brian Tribble's inability to be completely honest with himself by telling the entire truth is the only thing that is going to set him free; a complete and unaltered confession. We have never heard the whole truth. Brian, you called yourself a friend, but friends don't give cocaine to their friends. Answer this, How did cocaine get in his stomach? I can understand it being in his sinus, in his urine, and in his blood stream, but in his stomach? Sounds like someone put a stong dose in something he consumed. Answer that you convict. Brian, of course you're responsible for Len Bias' death; it was you who supplied the drugs. I wonder how many other lives you ruined?
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11-04-2009 @ 1:33PM
Monet said...
Brian, I wish you the very best...I do...
I will not play the blame game at all we are all responsible for our decisions and directions; however you are responsible to the contribution of this tragedy by your participation on the levels that resulted in to a friend's death forever...you can not change that you must accept that.
Still I wish you the best.
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