Basketball Analytics Intern (Summer 2025) – Indiana Pacers (Indianapolis, IN)

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Pacers Sports & Entertainment is seeking a Basketball Analytics Intern who will work directly with the Indiana Pacers analytics team in support of the front office, training staff, and coaching staff. The overall focus will be on helping improve existing data science and data engineering projects, developing new tools, and maintaining current analytics infrastructure. Experience in sports is not required, but applicants should be passionate about basketball and the data industry.

 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Enrolled in a college or university program as a junior, senior, or graduate student.
  • Demonstrated data programming experience (R, Python, SQL) either in data science, data engineering, or data analysis.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerBI).
  • Strong organizational skills with a robust attention to detail in regards both to checking data and visual presentation of deliverables.
  • Excellent communication skills and a desire to learn more both about the basketball industry and data analytics’ impact on the game.
  • Highly motivated and dependable.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develop internal software tools for use by the front office and coaching staff, including but not limited to new reports, predictive models, or data engineering pipelines.
  • Gather, clean, store, manage, and integrate data from a variety of sources.
  • Assist in the creation of both standardized reports and ad-hoc analyses.
  • Maintain and extend our existing analytics infrastructure.
  • Innovate across all aspects of basketball operations including coaching, scouting, and performance analytics.
  • Communicate results to the basketball operations staff through presentations, written reports, and tools.
  • Assist with compiling statistics/data and reporting for the Indiana Pacers and Indiana Mad Ants.
  • Collaborate on team projects and work autonomously on individual work.
  • Assisting with game night responsibilities as needed.
  • Other duties and projects as assigned.
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