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A smiling Derrick Favors started his media day press conference with a quick-fire list of answers prepared for the occasion. Among other topics, he boasted that he could play next to Rudy Gobert ...
Derrick Favors was having fun in Las Vegas last summer when he got a call from his agent around 11 p.m. or midnight. Favors, who had spent parts of 10 seasons with the Jazz, had been salary dumped ...
Free agent-to-be Derrick Favors finds his role with the Jazz, says ‘I would love to come back and be a part of this team’ while leaving open his options ...
Derrick Favors pauses and scratches the back of his head, searching for an answer to a question that is suddenly starkly different from the many others he fielded. It's about his father.
Derrick Favors wasn’t looking for a flashy pitch in free agency. When the season ended, the veteran forward had only one request of Joe Ingles: Don’t charter a plane and fly in for my meeting ...
Utah’s Derrick Favors is a product of that evolving league. Favors was just 18 years old when he was drafted by the Nets in 2010, too young to be in command of his considerable potential.
But they also made one of the NBA's toughest choices when they traded Derrick Favors to the New Orleans Pelicans. The move opened up the cap space necessary to offer Bojan Bogdanovic his four-year ...
The result is that Favors — no worse than a top-three player on the Jazz, and definitely in the top 10% of NBA players overall — is somehow undersung. SI put Favors at #28 among the league’s 450 or so ...
So how good is Derrick Favors and why might he be considered on the NBA’s underrated performers? Let’s take a look. The 2014-15 NBA season was the big man’s best yet, as the raw numbers — 16.0 PPG, 52 ...
PHILADELPHIA — Derrick Favors is capable of putting up gaudy box score numbers. Take Nov. 14 against the Los Angeles Clippers, the last time Favors logged double-digit minutes prior to Friday ...
When the news broke in late June that Derrick Favors was moving on to the New Orleans Pelicans after nine seasons in Utah, the goodbye messages poured in from every corner of the Jazz organization ...