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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Orleans Pelicans forward Derrick Favors (22) shoots over Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.

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.

Overlooked and underappreciated, Derrick Favors might never get the respect he rightfully deserves. On another team, in another market, he almost certainly would get more hype. But Favors is more than ...

Derrick Favors had until Tuesday afternoon to make a decision on his $10.2 million player option for the 2022-23 season. As expected, he opted in to the final season of his contract.

DERRICK FAVORS UPDATE<br>• Derrick Favors is one of three major Jazz free agents, with Raul Neto and Dante Exum, who will both be restricted free agents.<br>• Favors is entering his eighth season.

To paraphrase something several of his New Orleans teammates have noted throughout the 2019-20 season, Derrick Favors is a man of few words. When he wants to make a point, however, he always has ...

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 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 ...