Former NBA Player Caleb Swanigan Dies At 25

Former NBA player and Purdue Boilermaker Caleb Swanigan passed away from natural causes at the age of 25 on Monday night at a Fort Wayne hospital,

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Swanigan was named Indiana’s Mr. Basketball 2015 his senior year at Homestead High School in Indianapolis

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Highly recruited, Swangian signed with Purdue after initially committing to Michigan State.

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Swanigan averaged 14.4 points, 10.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game in two seasons at Purdue.

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He was named the Big Ten Player of the Year, a consensus first-team All-American, and a finalist for the Naismith Award his sophomore season.

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He entered the 2017 NBA Draft, and the Portland Trailblazers selected him No. 26

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The 6-foot-9 Swanigan played three years in the NBA with the Trailblazers and the Sacramento Kings,

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Swanigan was arrested several months later, in December 2020, for drug possession and appeared out of shape in his mugshot.

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