When the NBA season was suspended due to COVID-19 last month, an email circulated through the Pacers offices encouraging employees to utilize their sudden free time in a productive manner. Learn a new skill, perhaps, engage in some form of self-improvement or study a new subject.
For Josh Conder and Lori Miser, that meant making protective masks.
It figures, really. Conder is the Pacers' Equipment Manager and Miser is the Vice President of Engineering and Construction for Pacers Sports and Entertainment. They've got a natural inclination toward making and supplying things, and masks have been at the top of everyone's list of items of that need to be made and supplied.