{"id":245226,"date":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245226\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:49:07","slug":"pacers-to-sign-dunk-champion-mac-mcclung-cut-james-wiseman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245226\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers to sign dunk champion Mac McClung, cut James Wiseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"547fc042-3e02-4795-9637-9ab84322b625\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> are signing guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397071\/mac-mcclung\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mac McClung<\/a> to a multiyear contract, Greg Lawrence of Wasserman told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks the first standard NBA contract for McClung after the dunk contest&#8217;s first three-peat champion spent time in camp and on two-way deals since 2021. McClung, who most recently spent time with the Orlando Magic, has appeared in six games in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers plan to waive former No. 2 pick <a data-player-guid=\"78395694-832b-3357-8773-a07cc3ce782f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432808\/james-wiseman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Wiseman<\/a> to create roster space for McClung, who will sign a non-guaranteed multiyear deal, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseman, 24, had just made his return to the court from an Achilles tear he suffered in the first game of last season. He started last week&#8217;s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies and played 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana is dealing with several key injuries to their guards and wings to start the season. <a data-player-guid=\"175da6ce-ca4a-d4af-7ad0-cba0c8486080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395712\/andrew-nembhard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Nembhard<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"5bee0335-89c7-30ba-9cdc-097e17878ac6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683634\/bennedict-mathurin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"5906d109-9922-295b-8e60-cd644f04178a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278355\/obi-toppin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obi Toppin<\/a> are all dealing with injuries and listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2530530\/tj-mcconnell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. McConnell<\/a> is rehabbing from a hamstring injury he suffered before the season, and <a data-player-guid=\"c4a0ba92-4e50-60af-a617-3345255115a7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4396993\/tyrese-haliburton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> is out for the season because of an Achilles tear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Pacers are signing guard Mac McClung to a multiyear contract, Greg Lawrence of Wasserman told ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-245226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}