On his 31st birthday, Joe Ingles wanted to get the party started off right. So after knocking away a pass from Toronto’s Kyle Lowry, he found himself with an open court and dunked for the Jazz’s first two points of the night.
And in the end, Tuesday’s preseason game finished the way the Jazz wanted it to, with a 105-90 victory over last year’s top seed from the Eastern Conference, the Toronto Raptors. Appropriately, the brightest star, even above his more famous guests, belonged to Ingles: his 24 points led both teams after shooting 8 of 15 from the field and 5 of 11 from 3-point range.