SALT LAKE CITY — Jazz forward Joe Ingles is the best shooter in the NBA.

That’s what Ingles told reporters earlier this month, at least. Asked after shoot-around Friday about Ingles’ comment, Warriors guard Stephen Curry — widely considered the best shooter of all time — was hardly offended.

"That just means in Las Vegas in the Summer League in 2009 we had two of the best shooters of all time," Curry said. "We’ve got a lot in common, then."

Even if Ingles isn’t the league’s best shooter, he is surely one of its most confident. In 2015, when Ingles was just a bench player with Utah, he responded to a question about whether he was the Curry of Australia by saying, "Obviously. He’s the Joe Ingles of America."

Ingles has come a long way since his stints as an undrafted free agent on Golden State’s Summer League teams in 2009 and 2010. Each of the past two seasons, he has shot at least 44 percent from three-point range. In 2017-18, Ingles was an underrated factor in the Jazz’s late-season surge, finishing the season with career-bests in points (11.5 per game), rebounds (4.2) and assists (4.8).

"He has proven that he’s a versatile player that can do a lot of different things on the floor," Curry said of Ingles. "It took him a different type of journey and path to get here, but perseverance like that speaks a lot about a guy’s character and work ethic."

Still, it is probably an overstatement to call Ingles a better shooter than Curry — or even Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant, for that matter. Though Ingles’ career three-point percentage of 41.6 is better than Durant’s and only marginally worse than Curry’s or Thompson’s, Ingles tends to have space that those other three are seldom afforded.

There is also the fact that Ingles shoots far fewer three-pointers than Curry, Thompson or Durant. And while Ingles has only been in the league four years, the Warriors’ three long-range marksmen have long ago emerged as elite NBA shooters.

Not that it matters to Ingles, of course.

"Oh, I am. Yeah, why wouldn’t I?" Ingles said when asked recently whether he’s the best shooter in the league. "The numbers I’ve shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything, but I honestly feel like they’re all going to go in when I shoot the ball."

Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cletourneau@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @Con_Chron