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Elden Campbell -- a longtime Los Angeles Lakers big man and key figure on the team during the '90s -- has died at 57, TMZ can confirm.

Family sources tell TMZ ... he died suddenly Monday, but they declined to reveal his cause of death. We're told he was not sick.

The 6'11" center spent 15 years in the NBA -- more than half of that run in the purple and gold. The Lakers drafted Campbell in the first round in 1990, and he went on to share the floor with icons like Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant.

Former NFL star Le'Veon Bell just turned his entire life story into drip -- honoring his journey from college football to the pros and beyond with a custom chain ... loaded with emerald, ruby, and diamond-encrusted logos for every chapter of his career!

TMZ Sports has learned ... the three-time Pro Bowl running back linked up with his longtime jeweler, Moe Diamonds, in Miami to cop a new piece.

We're told Bell, 33, decided on only two team logos for the chain -- Michigan State University, where he played from 2010 to 2012, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

9:04 AM PT -- Mike Goforth, Division Superintendent of Wise County Schools, told TMZ Sports following the Virginia State Police’s latest update that the district will fully cooperate with law enforcement in the Travis Turner case.

"Wise County Public Schools is aware that law enforcement has filed charges against a staff member who has been on administrative leave," Goforth said.

"The individual remains on leave and is not permitted on school property or to have contact with students."

Shocking twist in the case of Travis Turner ... the missing high school football coach is a wanted man, according to Virginia State Police, after allegedly possessing child pornography.

11:39 AM PT -- Logan Logan Henderson is now on the mend and he even returned to the stage to perform this past weekend.

Big Time Rush’s Logan Henderson was, uh ... rushed to the hospital in an ambulance after a big-time bloody injury he suffered onstage -- and it’s seriously graphic, so brace yourself before checking out the pic!

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ the band was in Krakow, Poland, on their sold-out European tour Thursday when things took a turn -- they slid down a set piece, Logan smacked his leg on something, and his knee just busted wide open. Big yikes.

This all went down toward the end of the show during one of their high-energy numbers, "Love Me Love Me" -- and the gash in his knee was so gnarly, the doctor had to close it with one giant suture to help it heal properly.

President Donald Trump is now insisting he didn't threaten any members of Congress with death ... but, he does think they're in hot water.

The 47th president discussed his controversial comments in an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade Friday morning ... telling Brian that in the past those pols might've been on their way to the gallows.

That said, Trump adds, the senators and reps should be in big trouble ... because he says he certainly would be if he made the same comments with a Democrat in the Oval Office.

Jake Paul's heading into his Anthony Joshua fight locked and loaded ... El Gallo just commissioned one of the most amazing chains you'll ever lay your eyes on, made with a whopping 364 carats of diamonds!

TMZ Sports has learned the 12-1 pro boxer copped the insanely bling-y piece from famed jeweler, Vobara, ahead of his highly anticipated December 19th matchup.

This chain's composition is wild ... we're told each "round" is loaded with 5 carats of high-quality, oval VS1 diamonds, all mounted with one kilo of 8-karat rose gold.

Ja Rule was involved in an altercation last night at Barclays Center during Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" tour stop, and turns out ... that was the height of it. Rumors of him receiving any beatdown are completely false!!!

Ja cleared up all the internet rumors with TMZ Hip Hop ...  “I don’t call police… I didn’t get jumped, they tried tho 🤣." When asked who the guys were trying to put blood in his eye, he simply said, "No clue."

Tasha K -- who's been ordered to pay Cardi B over $1 million in a past defamation, false reporting case -- jumped out on the Ja rumors, claiming the rap star had been turned to orange juice pulp ... and he clapped back at her!!!

A woman -- crowned one of Alabama's teachers of the year -- is in hot water with the law after allegedly whipping the s**t out of her child with a belt on video.

Nicole Staples -- who teaches second grade at Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile -- was charged Wednesday with willful abuse of a child under 18, according to the county Sheriff's Office.

The video is startling ... Staples appears to hit her adolescent son on the backside upwards of 20 times after hurling a flurry of curses at him for not cleaning up after himself. She appears to grab him by the hair before seeming to smack him again.

Disturbing behavior down in Florida ... a man in Miami walked into a dance studio and stuck his nose in the couch cushion where an underage girl had just been sitting ... it's all on video, and now cops are involved.

The creepy footage from inside a Miami dance studio picks up with a girl sitting on a couch near the front door ... she gets up to leave, and then a man enters, makes sure the coast is clear, and then buries his face in the cushion where she'd been sitting moments earlier.

Miami Springs PD Chief Matthew Castillo tells TMZ ... one of the owners of a local dance studio contacted cops that night to report the "disturbing" incident, which happened Tuesday night as business was winding down.

Addison Rae looks like she's a big fan a popular singing competition show ... at least based on what she just wore at the airport.

Check out these images of the "I Got It Bad" singer walking to the curb at LAX on Wednesday ... she's wearing an eye mask.

Addison is an influencer turned Grammy nominee ... so the jokes write themselves, folks ... allow us to introduce "The Masked Singer." 😂

Cardi B just posted the first public pictures of her newborn baby.

The photos, captioned with the date Nov. 4, have also raised speculation she could be engaged because of the huge rock on her finger. TMZ has learned, however, it is NOT an engagement ring.

As you know ... the newborn baby boy marks her first baby NFL star Stefon Diggs.

Sydney Hardeman, who went viral for her stunned reaction to Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella set, is dead ... TMZ has learned.

Sydney's mother, Jamie Hardeman, tells TMZ ... Sydney died by suicide.

We're told Sydney took her own life last Saturday. She was engaged and set to be married this upcoming April.

A gnarly fight broke out in front of "So You Think You Can Dance" star Joshua Allen's open casket over the weekend -- and it's caused tension among his family.

Check out the video circulating online -- you can see a young female leaning over the casket, when all of a sudden, an older woman pounces on her to pull her back ... and an all-out brawl breaks out.

A Florida SWAT team had an arrest fall right into their lap, literally ... because a barricaded suspect hiding in his attic fell through the ceiling and into a sea of deputies ... and it's all on video.

Check out this footage out of Sebastian, FL ... where a SWAT team and crisis negotiators were called in to capture a man with a long rap sheet who was wanted for allegedly driving a stolen car.

The Indian River County Sheriff's Office says the guy who comes crashing out of his ceiling into the waiting arms of SWAT officers is 37-year-old Keith Rodgers ... and he'd barricaded himself in his home and taken refuge in the attic after deputies confronted him about driving a truck that was reported stolen.

Demi Lovato is sober after overdosing on drugs and almost dying years ago, but Tekashi 6ix9ine says she's bound to relapse ... and he's offering a way to make that happen, though he tells TMZ it's just an attempt at "dark humor."

Tekashi was on Andie Elle's podcast when the conversation shifted to former child actors doing drugs.

6ix9ine brought up Demi, who, as we first reported, overdosed on heroin in July 2018.

Cops in North Carolina can apparently beat the crap out of a suspect on video and go to work like nothing happened ... because that's what is playing out right now in Greensboro.

Folks are outraged over a clip that's going viral ... it shows at least three officers using force on a Black man they have pinned to the ground, and it looks like one cop has a knee near the man's neck.

A Greensboro Police Department spokesperson tells TMZ ... the officers in the video remain on active duty.