After becoming injured the Thunder renounced their rights to Swift. In 2009 he played for the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA D-League. In 2010 he played for the Seattle Aviators and the Snohomish County Explosion of the National Athletic Basketball League. From 2010 to 2011 he played for the Tokyo Apache in Japan. His home was foreclosed in 2013 and he refused to vacate it. Swift was found living in the home of an alleged heroin and methamphetamine dealer and was charged with a gun crime in November 2014.