PLAYER DETAILS
Derrick Favors profile
- Club
- _Free Agent Basketball
- Position
- Power Forward
- Nationality
- United States
- Date of birth
- 1991-07-15
- Birthplace
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Height
- 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
- Weight
- 265 lb (120 kg)
PLAYER BIOGRAPHY
About Derrick Favors
Derrick Bernard Favors (born July 15, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Windy City Bulls of the NBA G League. Favors played college basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for one season before being selected by the New Jersey Nets with the third overall pick of the 2010 NBA draft.
After playing a season with the Nets, Favors was traded to the Utah Jazz in 2011, where he played for eight seasons. In the 2019 offseason, he was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans. He then returned to the Jazz in the 2020–2021 season after playing a year with the Pelicans.
During his second stint with the Utah Jazz, Favors became the franchise's 10th all-time leading scorer when he passed Mehmet Okur.