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Forward · 2014–22

Joe Ingles

A misspelled contract changed everything — when the Adelaide 36ers sent their hometown prospect a lowball offer addressed to Joesph, Ingles walked, became the first player ever signed by the South Dragons, and won NBL Rookie of the Year. Barcelona and a EuroLeague title with Maccabi Tel Aviv followed before the Jazz picked him up in October 2014 after the Clippers cut him in preseason. Eight seasons later he stood as the franchise's all-time leader in three-pointers made.

A fixture of the Australian national team who came up through the Australian Institute of Sport alongside Patty Mills, he gave up cricket and Australian rules football for basketball as a boy — and returned home to play for Melbourne United.

HOW HE CAME & WENTThe Clippers cut him days before opening night in 2014 and Utah claimed him on October 27. Eight seasons later he tore his ACL at Minnesota in January 2022, and the Jazz moved him to Portland at that deadline purely as salary — he never played a game for them.

Full name
Joseph Howarth Ingles
Utah Jazz tenure
2014–22
Position
Forward
Born
1987, Adelaide, Australia
Height
6′8″ (203 cm)
Weight
216 lb (98 kg)
Drafted
undrafted
Signature in the archive 2017-18 Panini Prizm Base #113 IP Jazz

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With the Jazz

JOE INGLES · 2014–22 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2014–15UTA7921.25.02.22.30.90.1.415.356.750
2015–16UTA8115.34.21.91.20.70.0.426.386.722
2016–17UTA8224.07.13.22.71.20.1.452.441.735
2017–18UTA8231.411.54.24.81.10.2.467.440.795
2018–19UTA8231.312.14.05.71.20.2.448.391.707
2019–20UTA7229.79.83.95.20.90.2.445.399.787
2020–21UTA6727.912.13.64.70.70.2.489.451.844
2021–22UTA4524.97.22.93.50.50.1.404.347.773
JAZZ TOTAL8 SEASONS59025.78.63.23.80.90.2.449.408.768

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

JOE INGLES · 7 NOTES
  • Represented Australia at four Olympic Games.
  • Known league-wide for his trash talk despite an unhurried playing style.
  • When his son Jacob was diagnosed with autism, he and his wife Renae — an Australian netball star — became two of the most visible autism advocates in sport.
  • An Institute of Sport coach spotted him at sixteen in Mount Gambier while scouting three other boys, remembering the skinny lefty with the surfy haircut.
  • He was the very first player to sign with the expansion South Dragons and scored 29 on debut, a record for an Australian.
  • He played 418 consecutive games before an Achilles issue in 2021, then three weeks later passed John Stockton for the most threes in franchise history.
  • In March 2025 Minnesota coach Chris Finch gave him his first start in three years so that his son Jacob could watch him play.