Joe Ingles

About

Joseph Howarth Ingles ( ING-ghəlz; born 2 October 1987) is an Australian professional basketball player for Melbourne United of the National Basketball League (NBL). He also represents the Australian national team. He primarily plays at the small forward position. He is the Utah Jazz all-time leader in three-pointers made.

Born in the Adelaide suburb of Happy Valley, Ingles attended Pasadena High School. His junior club was the Southern Tigers. He later attended both Lake Ginninderra College and the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra with future Boomers teammates Brad Newley and Patty Mills. He played for the AIS men’s team in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) in 2005 and 2006. Along with basketball, Ingles also played Australian rules football and cricket in his younger years but gave up both sports to focus on basketball.
Ingles’ two basketball goals as a boy were to play for the Adelaide 36ers and Australia. He was highly sought after when he came out of the AIS in 2006, and he subsequently met with the 36ers as a 17-year-old, but a couple of Adelaide blunders set him off interstate. Ingles said of the situation, “The minimum salary…