About
Welcome to 8 Points, 9 Seconds, the Indiana Pacers news and opinion site brought to you by the FanSided Network. 8 Points, 9 Seconds is dedicated to providing top-notch Pacers news and original content. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together to catch up on the latest happenings and discuss their passion for all things Pacers. 8 Points, 9 Seconds consists of an editorial team that creates content as they closely follow the Pacers. The site covers opinions, news, rumors, trades, and analysis using reputable sources such as Basketball-Reference, Cleaning the Glass, NBA.com, and more. Any article updates or corrections after publication are communicated via an editor's note. With over 5,000 followers on Facebook, 8 Points, 9 Seconds has built a social community for fans in addition to posting daily articles year-round. FanSided is owned and operated by Minute Media, whose other brands also include Sports Illustrated, The Players' Tribune, 90min, and Mental Floss.
Meet The Team
Elie Deglaoui
Elie Deglaoui is the Site Expert for Chowder & Champions and a super contributor to 8 Points, 9 Seconds and Titan Sized. Elie received an English degree with a concentration in Journalism/Professional Writing from UMass Lowell in 2021 and is a diehard Boston sports fan. Elie also has bylines in Athlon, LastWordOnSports, and GiveMeSport, and he has been featured on other outlets, such as MSN and Yardbarker. When he is not watching sports, Elie loves playing video games, reading, listening to music, and hanging out with his cat.
@ElieDeglaoui
Jack Simone
Jack Simone is a senior writer for the NBA Division at FanSided. He is a credentialed member of the media and has been on the Boston Celtics beat for three full seasons. Following a Bachelor's degree at Worcester State, he earned a Master's in Sports Communication at Regis College, graduating in 2022. He's worked at CelticsBlog, Heavy.com, and other FanSided sites, all starting in 2020. In his free time, he enjoys watching YouTube, playing basketball, and golfing, though he is still on a quest to break 90.
@JackSimoneNBA
Kyle Wright
Kyle is a Contributor to Lob and Smash, focusing on tennis history and stats analysis. Kyle played tennis at Valparaiso University before embarking on a 22-year career in sports journalism and sports information, during which he won writing awards from the Florida Press Association and College Sports Communicators.
@explorethewin
Maxwell Ogden
Maxwell Ogden is a full-time editor covering the NBA. He was previously a Contributor Sourcing Specialist for FanSided and spent four years as the Site Expert at Daily Knicks. Maxwell has been a sports writer for more than a decade, with previous experience at Bleacher Report. In addition to being a lifelong NBA fan and historian, Maxwell is a massive football fan. You know, the one you play with your feet.
@MaxwellOgden
Thilo Widder
Thilo Widder is the site expert for 8 Points, 9 Seconds. As the first person to graduate in Bennington College’s history with a focus in sports journalism, Thilo is on a lifelong mission to prove the claims of his thesis committee -- that every sports story had already been told before -- wrong. He has been published on both national and smaller-scale projects for both SLAM Magazine and SB Nation. Despite that, he takes great joy in blending his interests in music, film, food, politics, and, of course, sports into stories only he can tell.
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