Len Bias and Reggie Lewis don't die..and we're at 20 Championships at least.
Jerk Stern didn't give us cap relief when Reggie died--so Celtics were making desperate deals, to try to replace what we lost.
Yeah, Stern will never get to Heaven for that.
I'm sure they changed that. It wouldn't have happened if it were the Knicks. The League was not anxious for another Celtics dynasty--not in the TV era of big markets.
As for Bias, the Celtics didn't do their do diligence on the kid. He had a drug issue.
Lewis may also have had a drug issue from the insurance problems they had after his death. His heart was apparently scarred in a way that suggested cocaine. I don't know how that was resolved. It was a medical issue, and there was some controversy regarding the doctors' diagnoses.