{"id":322936,"date":"2025-12-03T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:36:09","slug":"elden-campbell-clemsons-all-time-leading-scorer-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322936\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Campbell, Clemson’s all-time leading scorer, dies at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elden Campbell<\/a>, the all-time leading scorer at Clemson<\/a> who played for the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in the 1990s and won an NBA title with the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, has died at the age of 57.<\/p>\n

Clemson announced that Campbell died Tuesday without offering details.<\/p>\n

Campbell was a three-time All-ACC selection at Clemson from 1986 to 1990, making three NCAA tournaments. As a senior, Campbell helped lead the Tigers to their only regular-season ACC title ahead of a run to the Sweet 16, where they lost to UConn<\/a> on a buzzer-beater.<\/p>\n

Campbell finished with 1,880 career points at Clemson to still hold the school record and also ranks second in career blocks (334) and eighth in rebounds (836), among other accolades.<\/p>\n

“I am deeply saddened to learn of Elden Campbell’s passing,” Cliff Ellis, Campbell’s coach at Clemson, said in a statement. “… Most of all, Elden was an outstanding, giving person. This is a sad day for the Clemson family. Elden loved Clemson, he came back and supported the program after he retired. He exemplified what Clemson was all about.”<\/p>\n

Selected in the first round by the Lakers in 1990, Campbell would go on to play nine seasons in Los Angeles before he was traded to the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> in 1999. He would also play for Seattle, New Jersey and Detroit, winning an NBA title with the Pistons in 2003-04 before his career ended the following year.<\/p>\n

In 1,044 career games over 15 NBA seasons, Campbell averaged 10.3 points and 5.9 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elden Campbell, the all-time leading scorer at Clemson who played for the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1990s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}