NBA champion and Clemson great Elden Campbell dead at 57

NBA champion and erstwhile Los Angeles Lakers halfway Elden Campbell is dormant astatine 57, his alma mater Clemson announced Wednesday. 

The origin of decease was not instantly known. 

"We mourn the nonaccomplishment of Elden Campbell, our all-time starring scorer, All-American and three-time All-ACC player, who passed distant astatine the property of 57," Clemson said successful a statement. 

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Elden Campbell (41) of the Los Angeles Lakers takes a foul changeable during an NBA hoops crippled against the Washington Bullets astatine USAir Arena successful Landover, Maryland, connected Nov. 26, 1994. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Campbell is besides the winningest subordinate successful Clemson history, arsenic helium played successful a program-record 84 victories. He is besides the starring scorer connected the lone Clemson squad that won the ACC title successful the program’s history.

Campbell played successful the NBA for 15 seasons and, increasing up successful Inglewood, California, was a instrumentality of the Lakers arsenic a kid. The 6-foot-11 halfway played 8 and a fractional seasons for his puerility team. 

The Lakers drafted Campbell successful the archetypal circular of the 1990 NBA Draft retired of Clemson.

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Detroit Pistons’ Elden Campbell (41) is successful enactment against Miami Heat’s Shaquille O’Neal (32) successful Miami, Florida, connected May 25, 2005. (Bill Frakes/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

Campbell bushed the Lakers successful the NBA Finals erstwhile helium was a subordinate of the Detroit Pistons successful the 2003-2004 season. Campbell played successful 14 games during the Pistons’ tally to the title. 

Campbell played for six antithetic teams successful his career: the Lakers, the Charlotte Hornets, the Pistons, the New Orleans Hornets, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the New Jersey Nets. In 1,044 vocation games, helium averaged 10.3 points per game, 5.9 rebounds per game, and 1.1 assists per game. 

Campbell earned the nicknames "Big E" and "Easy E" for his demeanor and play style. Byron Scott, who was a teammate of Campbell’s for 2 abstracted stints with the Lakers, said helium was a "good dude."

"I conscionable retrieve his demeanor. That’s wherefore we nicknamed him ‘Easy E,’" Scott told The Los Angeles Times. "He was conscionable truthful cool, thing speeding him up. He was going to instrumentality his time. He was conscionable easy. He was specified a bully dude. I loved Easy, man."

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Washington Wizards’ Kwame Brown (right) knocks the shot distant from Charlotte Hornets’ Elden Campbell (left) successful the 2nd fractional astatine Charlotte Coliseum successful Charlotte, North Carolina, connected April 5, 2002. (NELL REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Another 1 of Campbell’s erstwhile Lakers teammates, and puerility friend, Cedric Ceballos, took to societal media to mourn his death. 

"This 1 wounded to the bone. Grew up arsenic kids together," Ceballos posted to Instagram. 

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