RIP Caleb Swanigan

[Jake from State Farm]

Only 25

https://fox59.com/news/caleb-swanigan-former-purdue-star-dead-at-25/

 

[Scout]

RIP

Twenty years ago this never makes it out of regional news, now it's an alert on millions of phones. Weird how news has changed.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I hate to speculate and I won't, but I think Marfan Syndrome is out as a cause. He was big and beefy.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I followed him a good bit out of Purdue because he was a heck of a story. Unfortunately he struggled with old addictions and was in really bad shape physically, mentally and otherwise with no one around him to help.

 

[BartonK]

Last time he appeared in public, at a marijuana sentencing hearing, he had gained roughly 150 pounds in a fairly short time since leaving the NBA.

 

[poindexter]

What does dying "of natural causes" at 25 even mean?

 

[User 150927]

What does dying "of natural causes" at 25 even mean?

This is good, if you haven't seen it. His father was also a very big man and apparently died of all the kind of natural causes that obesity brings on in many, especially Black men.

https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...biggie-swanigan-dies-too-young-25/7688219001/

 

[BTExpress]

Then he died of obesity. The body does not want to die at 25 without disease or stuff being done to it. He died of the stuff.

 

[Tighthead]

What does dying "of natural causes" at 25 even mean?

It means there was no trauma, no suicide or homicide and nothing like drugs involved. A heart attack is considered natural cause.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Swanigan was a big time recruit
He committed to Michigan State in a move that surprised even Tom Izzo
He came in with all kinds of demands from Roosevelt Barnes, a former Lions LB turned agent who was his legal guardian
Izzo was quite relieved when Swanigan decommitted a month later and eventually went to Purdue
Classic great college player who wasn’t quite good enough for the NBA

 

[Scout]

This is good, if you haven't seen it. His father was also a very big man and apparently died of all the kind of natural causes that obesity brings on in many, especially Black men.

https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...biggie-swanigan-dies-too-young-25/7688219001/

That was really good.

 

[BartonK]

Then he died of obesity. The body does not want to die at 25 without disease or stuff being done to it. He died of the stuff.

He was on an NBA roster when the league shut down in March 2020. How do you go from an NBA-caliber body to dead of obesity in 27 months?

 

[HanSenSE]

He was on an NBA roster when the league shut down in March 2020. How do you go from an NBA-caliber body to dead of obesity in 27 months?

Doyell touched on it a bit in the link uptopic. Away from the support system a NBA team can offered, he ballooned.

 

[Scout]

Doyell touched on it a bit in the link uptopic. Away from the support system a NBA team can offered, he ballooned.

And Perdue.

 

[Alma]

He was on an NBA roster when the league shut down in March 2020. How do you go from an NBA-caliber body to dead of obesity in 27 months?

There's probably some value in finding out what a medical examiner says.