Despite significant changes in format to the 2021-2022 season, it became the most successful offensive season in Mad Ants history as the team celebrated their 15th Anniversary Season. While returning from the previous season’s bubble format, COVID-19 did alter this season as well. The team announced before games began that they would be playing a […]
APRIL 18, 2022 – On Monday, the NBA G League announced the remainder of their awards for the 2021-2022 season. Fort Wayne saw Justin Anderson earn All-NBA G League First Team honors. Anderson is the third Mad Ant to ever earn All-League First Team honors, joining Tony Mitchell (2012-13) and Ron Howard (2013-14). When he […]
APRIL 7, 2022 – Fort Wayne Mad Ants guard Gabe York and forward Nate Hinton have earned NBA Call-Ups with the Indiana Pacers. These are the 27th and 28th NBA Call-ups in Mad Ants organization history. These two call-ups increase Fort Wayne’s record setting season that has now seen five players earn a total of […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – March 18, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have acquired Troy Baxter Jr. from the NBA G League available player pool. Originally from Tallahassee, Florida, Baxter Jr. finished his college career at […]
MARCH 17, 2022 – Fort Wayne Mad Ants forward Justin Anderson has earned another NBA Call-up via a 10-day contract with the Indiana Pacers. This is the 26th NBA Call-up in organization history and Anderson’s 3rd of the season. Only Anderson and Jeremy Richardson (2007-2008) are Mad Ants that have earned multiple call-ups with multiple […]
March 15, 2022 – Mad Ants forward Justin Anderson has been named the NBA G League Player of the Week for the week of March 7-13 the league announced today. Anderson, who leads the NBA G League in scoring during the regular season at 27.8 points per game, had one of the best weeks of […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – March 11, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have acquired Darius Adams from the NBA G League available player pool. From Decatur, Illinois, Adams finished his college basketball career at the University […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – March 3, 2022 – At Friday night’s game against the Lakeland Magic, the Mad Ants will reach a franchise attendance milestone as part of their 15th Anniversary season: the one millionth fan in franchise history at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The fan will be celebrated as they enter the concourse pregame […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 23, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have waived guard Samir Doughty. Doughty was acquired on February 18 from the available player pool and did not appear in any games for Fort […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 22, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have acquired Pedro Bradshaw and Alex Robinson from the available player pool. Bradshaw is a rookie guard out of Bellarmine University was first team All-ASUN […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 18, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have acquired Samir Doughty from the available player pool. Doughty will help fill out the roster for the Mad Ants as Jordan Bell will be […]
February 15, 2022 – Current Fort Wayne Mad Ant forward Jordan Bell has been named to the 12-player Team USA World Cup Qualifying team, as announced today. Bell is averaging 11.4 points, 9 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 2.4 blocks per game since joining the Mad Ants via trade on January 31. Included in that was […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 3, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have waived guard Daxter Miles Jr. Miles Jr. joined the Mad Ants first on January 8, 2020 via trade with Northern Arizona. He returned for […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 1, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that Kavell Bigby-Williams will return to the team via returning player rights. Bigby-Williams was acquired during the 2019-2020 season via trade, playing with the team just before […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – February 1, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that the team will add two games in March to be played at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne. The Mad Ants will host […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – January 31, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that guard Russ Smith is out for the rest of the NBA G League season with a shoulder injury. Smith appeared in 7 games with the Mad […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – January 31, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today that they have waived forward DJ Johnson. Johnson appeared in five NBA G League regular season games for the Mad Ants in 2022. He averaged 4.8 points […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – January 31, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today they have made a trade with the Santa Cruz Warriors to acquire Jordan Bell. Bell averaged 10.6 points and 12.4 rebounds per game for Santa Cruz during […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – January 17, 2022 – The Fort Wayne Mad Ants, presented by Lutheran Health Network, the NBA G League affiliate of the Indiana Pacers, announced today they have made a trade with the Grand Rapids Gold for D.J. Johnson. Johnson has played three games with Grand Rapids this regular season, averaging 6.2 minutes […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – January 15, 2022 – The Indiana Pacers have assigned Goga Bitadze and Isaiah Jackson to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA G League. This is the 2nd assignment of the season for Bitadze. He has played 2 games with Fort Wayne this season, averaging 28.5 points and 10 rebounds […]