The little boy’s arm jutted out toward the player, a jersey clenched in his hand. Around the court, there are dozens, hundreds even, of exchanges before each game: a player and a fan, a jersey and a signature in black Sharpie. But Nixon Price didn’t want Joe Ingles autograph—the boy was giving Ingles’ his, his 10-year-old handwriting on the back of his green Junior Jazz jersey.
It’s that confidence that drew Ingles to the boy in the first place.
“He’s got no filter,” Ingles says. “That’s kind of like me.”
It can also be a quality associated with autism.