Kyle Guy departs Noblesville Boom after contract buyout
The G League veteran and team leader averaged 21.1 points per game in his return to professional basketball.
UPDATE: Jan. 27: Kyle Guy has signed with ShanXi FenJiu Basketball Club, part of the Chinese Basketball Association.
The Noblesville Boom will be without their top player for the remainder of the season.
Kyle Guy has reached an agreement with the Boom on a contract buyout, allowing for him to sign with a club overseas. He plans to continue playing in China, per league sources.
In a corresponding move, the Boom brought back forward Ray Spalding, who had been waived on Tuesday.
A text message to Guy was not immediately returned.
Guy becomes the second Boom player this season to leave to pursue an opportunity overseas. Two weeks ago, rookie guard Steven Ashworth agreed to a contract buyout, then signed with Gladiators Trier in Germany.
The departure is a significant loss for the Boom — the G League affiliate of the Pacers — as Guy had emerged as both a leader and the team’s most productive and consistent player. After briefly retiring from basketball and pursuing coaching opportunities, including a stint at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, Guy ultimately decided he still wanted to play.
At 4–5 in the regular season, the Boom sit ninth out of 16 teams in the Eastern Conference. (Records reset following the tip-off tournament.)
The Boom entered this season amid major change, undergoing a full franchise rebrand, playing home games in the newly built The Arena at Innovation Mile, and building an entirely new roster. Guy, who most recently served on Steve Alford’s coaching staff at Nevada, became a central piece of that transition.
It was a bonus that he’s an Indy native. He played at Lawrence Central High School and was voted Indiana Mr. Basketball in 2016.
In his return to professional basketball, Guy appeared in 20 games and averaged 21.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 7.6 assists per game. It marked his first G League action since the 2021–22 season.
He helped carry the Boom through the opening month-plus of the season, a stretch in which both the Boom and Pacers dealt with injuries that left each roster shorthanded. At one point, Noblesville was forced to use an emergency hardship exception, getting a player from Chicago to Grand Rapids for the season opener on Nov. 7.
The Boom open a three-game homestand Thursday against Grand Rapids. The Pacers have assigned rookie guard Kam Jones, while two-way guard Ethan Thompson and Taelon Peter are also expected to be available.
This story will be updated.
For more with Guy, watch what he had to say after the home opener on Nov. 8:
All the boxes at the bottom work fine but the email one, been like that while FYI GO IU Thanks
As I mentioned before, shame the email button does not work!