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Joe Ingles\u2019 NBA career was 810 regular-season games for the Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, and Timberwolves.<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Joe Ingles is returning to play in Australia\u2019s National Basketball League after a 12-year\u00a0NBA\u00a0career spanning more than 800 games.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Ingles signed with the NBL\u2019s Melbourne United on a two-year contract just days after the Minnesota Timberwolves, where Ingles played the last two seasons,\u00a0were beaten by San Antonio\u00a0in six games in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Ingles\u2019 second stint in the NBL \u2014 he began his professional career with the now-defunct South Dragons from 2006-2009, winning the 2007 Rookie of the Year and helping his team to the 2009 title.<\/p>\n
Ingles\u2019 NBA career was 810 regular-season games for the Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, and Timberwolves, where he played only 267 regular-season minutes in two seasons (2024\u201326), appearing in 46 games.<\/p>\n
The forward is a five-time Olympian for Australia, winning a bronze medal\u00a0with the Boomers in 2021 at the Tokyo Games. It marked Australia\u2019s first appearance on an Olympic podium in men\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need the money, I don\u2019t need the notoriety and I don\u2019t need the presence of coming back, but I want to compete, I want to play and I want to win,\u201d Ingles told the Australian Associated Press on Tuesday from Orlando, Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve missed the last couple of years; that competitiveness of being out on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ingles said he was eager to return \u201chome\u201d to Melbourne with his wife, Renae, and their three children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still love competing, I still love the game, and I believe I can genuinely help this group win,\u201d Ingles said. \u201cAt this stage of my career, it\u2019s not about individual achievements. It\u2019s about impact, leadership, helping a group come together and chasing something meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Ingles\u2019 NBA career was 810 regular-season games for the Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, and Timberwolves.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,84276,590,85],"class_list":["post-682184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joe-ingles","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}