Who saw elden campbell ball?

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1. I think I still remember one there line ups
   Elden, Vlad, Ceballos, Jones, Van Exel

2. I witnessed him play but did not watch him ball.

3. He was smooth

4. He was one of my favorite players growing up. Took a hit when Shaq joined. I remember him regressing. And then he’d ball out when shaq sat out.

5. I remember when they drafted him at the end of the first round. Took him a few years to be serviceable. His brother Elwayne never panned out.

6. He always turned his torso instead of his head.

7. I remember he had a great game against Ewing. But those were few and far between.

8. Had that one monster series in the playoffs against Seattle. My friends called him baby hands Campbell as he always seemed to mishandle the ball.

9. Was one of the first big men I watched as a kid. When I first got NBA Showdown for the SNES, I would, for no good reason, pass the rock to him in the paint thinking he would do his thing. Thinking back about it and how good Campbell really was, I might not have been thinking correctly.

   Still has my respect for wearing #41 with so much pride.

10. Has the most laker points of the 90s if I recall correctly.

11. His basketball IQ and athleticism were on 2 totally different planets

12. I met him at a gas station a couple years ago. The man was cool as hell and super humble. I grew up watching him and have a ton of respect for him. He kinda paved the way for Shaq to come in (Vlade did too).

13. Every year I waited for him to figure it out and reach his potential. Then he goes to DET and helped them beat Kobe/Shaq…pissed me off.

14. Loved Elden. Awkward, peculiar ass mfer. Everything he did was uniquely Elden. I remember one of the knocks on him was that he had small hands. I have no clue how my 13 year old self could have learned that so it must have come from Chick or Stu.

15. Big El

16. Along side pig miller

17. I remember when he had to step in for Shaq when he got injured and was ballin like I’d never seen.

18. Pretty solid for us during the rebuild years. But I do remember him having “butterfingers” smh.

19. We used to refer to him as “seldom Campbell “

20. I saw him play, very slow and would always miss his jump hooks, but had a good game every once in a while

21. I was there in the post-Magicening

22. I remember he hit a 3 at the end of a Lakers run. That was before bigs would hit 3s.

23. He was a damn goodcenter but just got in the way with shaq. I do remember him hitting some three pointers in his time here lol it was two but he made both. He beat the 72-10 bulls when shaq was hurt with his ab muscles and gave the lakers a hell of a game