Former Detroit Pistons center and NBA champion Elden Campbell died suddenly on Monday at the age of 57, and the cause of death has been revealed.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Campbell’s death was accidental, per TMZ , and his sister, Sandra, told The New York Post he suffered a medical emergency while out fishing and drowned.

Campbell had been out on a fishing trip with his family in Florida on Monday and upon making it back to land suffered some kind of medical emergency. Sandra didn’t want to speculate on what caused the situation with his body currently with the medical examiner in hopes of learning more details about what happened in the days to come.

He was pronounced deceased at 8:03 p.m. on December 1.

Campbell, originally from Inglewood, California, spent most

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