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Joe Ingles
One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Joe Ingles: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you have a better example of his signature, or a story about it, the note at the foot of this page still stands.
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
With the Jazz
JOE INGLES · 2014–22 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–15 | UTA | 79 | 21.2 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | .415 | .356 | .750 |
| 2015–16 | UTA | 81 | 15.3 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | .426 | .386 | .722 |
| 2016–17 | UTA | 82 | 24.0 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | .452 | .441 | .735 |
| 2017–18 | UTA | 82 | 31.4 | 11.5 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 0.2 | .467 | .440 | .795 |
| 2018–19 | UTA | 82 | 31.3 | 12.1 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 1.2 | 0.2 | .448 | .391 | .707 |
| 2019–20 | UTA | 72 | 29.7 | 9.8 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | .445 | .399 | .787 |
| 2020–21 | UTA | 67 | 27.9 | 12.1 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | .489 | .451 | .844 |
| 2021–22 | UTA | 45 | 24.9 | 7.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | .404 | .347 | .773 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 8 SEASONS | 590 | 25.7 | 8.6 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | .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 five Olympic Games, from Beijing 2008 to Paris 2024.
- 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 as one of the three boys he had come to scout, 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.
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