Cole Swider Los Angeles Lakers · #41
Cole Swider is a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers who has played 35 games over 3 seasons, averaging 5.9 points, 2.7 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 2024-25.
Cole Swider — the report card
Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.
Where Cole Swider stands
Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.
Cole Swider — every number, three levels deep
Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.
How the model sees Cole Swider
Projection = per-minute rate × projected minutes. Rates are recency- and health-weighted, aged along a per-stat curve, and adjusted for live usage/role. No black box — every number shows its work.
Cole Swider career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 7 | 5.9 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | .333 | .375 |
| 2023-24 | 18 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | .395 | .333 |
| 2024-25 (Detroit) | 2 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | .000 | .000 |
| 2024-25 (Toronto) | 8 | 19.6 | 7.4 | 3.1 | 0.3 | .379 | .357 |
| Career | 35 | 8.5 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
The Lab
Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.
Are the Los Angeles Lakers built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Cole Swider
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
The beginning
Cole Swider is a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Cole Swider is a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers.
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He has played 35 games over 3 seasons (2022-25), averaging 8.5 minutes a night. The season-by-season table below carries every per-game figure, each one reconciled against ESPN.
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In 2024-25 he played 10 games across 2 teams, averaging 5.9 points, 2.7 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 17.0 minutes.
Where things stand
Where Swider goes from here.
Off the court
- Height
- 6' 8"
- Weight
- 220 lbs
- College
- Syracuse
- Experience
- 4th Season
- Born
- Portsmouth, RI
- Age
- 27
- Jersey
- #41
Cole Swider is from Portsmouth, RI, born 1999-05-08, listed at 6'8" and 220 lb. He has 4 seasons of NBA service. This background is assembled from league records; the colour that fills a page like this comes later, from a human.
A forward on 8.5 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.
Cole Swider — frequently asked
The questions people ask most about Cole Swider, answered.
