Joe Ingles is always talking. Watch him closely during a Utah Jazz game and you’ll see the Aussie forward chatting up his teammates, cracking jokes with referees, and talking trash to opposing players and fans. But there were times earlier this year—“days and days for weeks on end”—that Ingles showed up to the team’s practice facility, pushed through the workday, and left without saying so much as a word to anyone.
“People knew something was up,” he says now.
At first, Ingles went to his coach, Quin Snyder, so that he would know there might be days Ingles would be late.