The sport of basketball has held a firm place among America's most beloved pastimes ever since it spun off from the popular breakfast spread NBA Jam. Spread your friends across a row of seats with today's Groupon: for $8, you get a lower-level sideline ticket to see the Fort Wayne Mad Ants in their season opener November 21 at 5:00 p.m. in Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (a $20 value). Affiliated with NBA teams like the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, and Milwaukee Bucks, the Mad Ants provide local hoops heads with the roundball thrills of NBA Development League basketball. For their season opener, the Mad Ants' young Spalding-shooters will sharpen their teeth on hardwood files against the Sioux Falls Skyforce, who take their name from a floating team of aerial police officers. At halftime, witness the soaring skills of Acrodunk, a high-flying company of acrobatic jumpers who showcase their amicable split with gravity through choreographed leaps and rim-rattling jams.

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The News-Sentinel and Journal Gazette are covering the upcoming Mad Ants season extensively while the team is in training camp. More than 2200 Facebookers follow the Mad Ants.