One looks like a substitute math teacher at Reservoir High who moonlights as a CPA around tax time for some extra cash, and the other looks like the bloke who used to work at the Nunawading fish ‘n’ chip shop off Springvale Rd… but the love is real. And it’s beautiful.
Andrew Bogut and Joe Ingles are both now back in Australia, and the bants they’re firing off between the two of them are nek level. Seriously, their ongoing flame war is about as fun as bring on a plane to London with Boonie and a couple of slabs of green demons.
With Jingles back in Melbourne after the Utah Jazz were knocked out in the West semi-finals by Whingin’ Chris Paul and stripper glitter purveyor James Harden’s Houston Rockets, old mate Jingling Joe — aka Down Under Durant, aka Slow Mo Joe, aka The Jingling One, aka Dr Joseph J Ingles Tripologist — is now a stay-at-home dad looking after he and wife Renae’s young twins, while Renae has — awesomely — resumed her pro netball career with the Melbourne Vixens.
Bogut, meanwhile, has been busy running Melbourne’s political and cultural agenda, taking on — deep breath — traffic issues, the Australian cricket team, local politics, state politics, national politics, the East-West link, drug injecting rooms, media reporting, youth gangs, judicial powers, lenient sentencing, policing powers, pc outrage culture, the AFL, frivolous lawsuits and everything in between… all while preparing for the NBL season with his new club, the Sydney Kings.
And while they’re in the same country, two of Australia’s most decorated NBA players are delivering deadpan twitter bants of the highest order, with classic repartee whipping back and forth like Lley Lley’s flowing locks at the Aussie Open in ’98. Just give it a peep…
First, some nice enough cordiality…
And some more nice ones from the big fella …
it then got proper chummy….
Before the Strayan Wilt Chamberlain dropped a Renae Ingles hammer!
Gold. Then Bogut dropped the ol’ ‘Joe Ingles looks like an insurance agent’ gem….
But Bogut’s REAL flame was an all-time sick burn of the highest order:
That. Is. AMAZING!
But, like any top-notch band king, Jingles kept the home fires burning, and then dropped his perfectly salty Sydney-Bogut tongue-in-cheek dig yesterday…
Either way… bants of the highest order, from a couple of dead-set Aussie ledges.
#ONYAs Jingling Joe Ingles & Big Bogey!
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