Former NBA veteran Elden Campbell, who spent most of his 15-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers and later won an NBA championship with the Detroit Pistons, has died. He was 57.

Elden Campbell’s cause of death, where he grew up and college years, explained

Campbell died on Tuesday, and no cause of death has been revealed, according to the Los Angeles Times, the first to report on his death.

Campbell was a Los Angeles native, grew up in Inglewood, and attended Morningside High School. He then attended Clemson University, where he played alongside future Lakers and NBA players like Horace Grant and Dale Davis, NBC Los Angeles reported.

“I am deeply saddened to learn of Elden Campbell’s passing,” Cliff Ellis, Campbell’s head coach at Clemson, said, per the outlet. “Elden was a great player for four years, especially in 1989-90 when he was a major reason we won Clemson’s only ACC regular season championship. He went on to a 15-year career in the NBA and won a World Championship.

“But 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.”

Campbell played for several NBA teams after his Lakers stint and Pistons title

Campbell later got drafted to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1990 NBA draft, per the Los Angeles Times. The 6-foot-11 center spent 8 1/2 seasons playing for the team he grew up watching from 1990 to 1999, playing alongside NBA legends Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.

Midway through his ninth season with the Lakers, Campbell was traded to the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets. He played four seasons with the team from 1999 to 2002 before being traded again to the Seattle Sonics, Cleveland.com reported.

Campbell signed with the Detroit Pistons in July 2003 and helped the team win an NBA championship the following year against the Lakers. He was traded to two other teams, the Utah Jazz and the then-New Jersey Nets, to end his career. He finished his NBA career with 10.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 24.7 minutes across 1,044 games, including 671 starts, per Cleveland.com.

Former teammates spoke highly of Campbell

Several of Campbell’s former teammates spoke out following his passing on Tuesday.

“I just remember his demeanor. That’s why we nicknamed him ‘Easy E,’ ” Byron Scott, who grew up with Campbell and played on the Lakers together from 1990 to 1993, told The Times. “He was just so cool, nothing speeding him up. He was going to take his time. He was just easy. He was such a good dude. I loved Easy, man.”

“This one hurt to the bone,” former Laker and teammate Cedric Ceballos said in an Instagram post. “Grew up as kids together.”