Your right, but if he hadn't done that there at least would been a better chance that almost everyone would've had positive relationships with him even Lucas. Not saying everything would be 100%. But he wouldn't have been labeled a murderer and have burnt bridges. Then if they still decided to kill him off in the end at least he'd be at peace with ALMOST everyone.
Yep and he did have a basketball career afterwards, but it was cut short due to the accident and he was forced to retire early despite being young and wound up being a sports agent instead.