Spencer Haywood struggled with cocaine addiction while playing for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1979-80 season and was waived during the 1980 NBA Finals for falling asleep at practice after drug use. Former University of Maryland star forward Len Bias was selected No. 2 overall in the 1986 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics but died two days later after suffering from cardiac arrhythmia caused by cocaine overdose. Former NBA center Chris Washburn was barred in 1989 for cocaine use and didn’t become sober until 2000. “Once you start doing it, the s— just takes over and you don’t think you have a problem,” Richardson said. “Anything that you do that you can’t stop means that you got a problem. Gambling, sex, alcohol, drugs, it’s all the same.”