The Jazz wing said his entire family tested positive for the virus.
Utah Jazz guard Joe Ingles celebrates with Donovan Mitchell after Mitchell hit a big shot for the Jazz with 2:50 remaining the the game, in NBA action between the Utah Jazz and the Washington Wizards, at Vivint Arena on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021.The Salt Lake Tribune’s Eric Walden gathers insights about the Utah Jazz each week.
Ingles said that despite all the precautions that he and his Jazz teammates were taking, it still seemed like an inevitability that they’d face it, just given how widely the omicron variant is spreading. He noted that his hometown of Melbourne just had 51,000 positive cases in a day. Given that, he added, his family took some calculated risks.
Ingles himself never developed any symptoms and “felt fine the whole time,” while his wife, Renae, probably had the most within the family. Mostly, they were just worried about the kids.
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