Caleb Swanigan, who played in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers and the Sacramento Kings, died at age 25 in Fort Wayne (Indiana, USA), as reported on Tuesday by the American professional basketball league.
Swanigan died Monday night at Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital from “natural causes”, No further details have been released so far.
“We are devastated. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Caleb Swanigan’s family and friends. The world lost a kind soul. We love you, Biggie,” the official profile of the Purdue team, where Swanigan played in his college days, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Swanigan especially stood out in his second season at Purdue (18.5 points, 12.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists on average per game), which opened the doors of the NBA for him. The player was chosen in the position number 26 draft 2017 by the Blazers.
Over the next two years, he went back and forth as he went from the Blazers to the Kings and then returned to Portland.
Swanigan chose, “for personal reasons”, to not play NBA games in the “bubble” enabled in Orlando in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, and no longer returned to the courts.
In all, Swanigan played 75 parties in the NBA in three seasons from 2017 to 2020 in which he averaged 2.3 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
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