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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Derrick Favors won’t make his return to Utah until the end of November. That night will be an emotional one at Vivint Smart Home Arena. Still, a preseason matchup in New Orleans served as a ...
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 ...
Derrick Favors felt his phone buzz. He looked at the screen and saw it was the Utah Jazz. He answered his scheduled free-agency meeting with the team he spent the bulk of his career with, and he ...
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.
This season, Derrick Favors will have that opportunity with the Thunder. Over the past several years, quite a few veterans have made their way through Oklahoma City, ...
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 ...
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 ...
MILWAUKEE — One of the constants in Derrick Favors’ first decade in the NBA were the calls he got from his mother, Deandra, before and after every game. Deandra was ...
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.