Derrick Favors
Derrick Favors was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on July 15th, 1991 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 33, Derrick Favors biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Derrick Bernard Favors (born July 15, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Favors played college basketball for Georgia Tech for one season before being drafted third overall by the New Jersey Nets in the 2010 NBA draft.
He was later traded to Utah in 2011.
High school career
Favors played high school basketball at South Atlanta High School, where he was ranked as one of the finest high school basketball players in the class of 2009. Scout.com rated him the country's best player, #2 in the ESPNU100, and #4 by Rivals.com. He led South Atlanta to the Georgia Class AAA state championship on March 14, 2009. In the championship game against Westover High School, he scored 38 points and had 21 rebounds. He was selected to the 2009 McDonald's All-American Team. He led the East to a 113–110 victory and was named MVP of the contest. He had 19 points and 8 rebounds. Favorites were chosen to participate in the 2009 Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Oregon, but he was later chosen to play in the 2009 Jordan Brand Classic at Madison Square Garden, where he scored a game-high 21 points and was named MVP for the black team, while Renardo Sidney was named MVP for the white team. He finished his senior season with 288.1 points, 13.3 rebounds, 5.0 blocks, 3.0 steals, and 2.0 assists per game, and he still holds the career record in points (2,341), rebounds (1,511) and blocked shots (741).
College career
Favors voted for Georgia Tech over Georgia and North Carolina State in January 2009, which he preferred over Georgia and North Carolina State.
Favors for Paul Hewitt's Yellow Jackets played both power forward and center. Favors, Gani Lawal, and Zach Peacock formed a three-man rotation in the frontcourt. He had 11.8 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in ACC games and shot 62 percent from the field. He also aided the Yellow Jackets in the ACC tournament finals against Duke. During the tournament, he averaged 17 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 3 blocks per game.
Favors include ACC Rookie of the Year and the ACC All-Freshman Team.
Professional career
Favors said on April 9, 2010, he'd forgoe his last three years of college eligibility to enter the 2010 NBA draft, where he was subsequently selected with the third overall pick by the New Jersey Nets. Favors were 19 years 104 days when he made his NBA debut, becoming the youngest player to step foot on court for the Nets. He made his first double-double against Miami on October 31, 2010, defeating the Nets in just his third game with the Nets, with 13 points and 13 rebounds (10 offensive).
Favors were exchanged by Deron Williams, Devin Harris, two future first-round picks, and cash considerations to the Utah Jazz on February 23, 2011. On April 9, he scored a season-high 17 points against San Antonio.
Favors signed a four-year contract extension with the Jazz on October 19, 2013.
Favors won by 118–91 over the Phoenix Suns on November 1, 2014, after scoring a then-high 32 points. In a loss to the Miami Heat on November 12, 2015, he scored 25 points, 12 rebounds, and a career-high 7 blocks. In a 122-119 overtime victory over the Indiana Pacers on December 5, 2015, he scored a career-high 35 points. Favors returned to the floor on January 25, 2016, after a 16-game absence due to a back injury. In a loss to the Detroit Pistons, he played 19 minutes off the bench and collected 14 points and 5 rebounds.
Favors climbed to 10th place on Utah's all-time rebounding list on March 13, 2018, defeating the Detroit Pistons by 110-79. He defeated former Utah center Mehmet Okur, who had fewer than 3,599 rebounds with the Jazz. Favors was born in his 500th game with the Jazz on April 11, 2018, becoming the 12th player in franchise history to reach the milestone. Favors had career-bests of 20 points and 16 rebounds in Game 2 of the Jazz's first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 102-95 victory.
Favors re-signed with the Jazz on July 6, 2018. In a 113-95 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, he had a season-high 13 rebounds, putting him ahead of Greg Ostertag (3,978) for fourth place on the franchise's all-time rebounding list. In a 115-111 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on March 2, 2019, he had 23 points and tied a career record with 18 rebounds.
Favors was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for two second-round picks that had previously been acquired from the Golden State Warriors on July 7, 2019.
Favors reunited him with the Utah Jazz in a free agency on November 25, 2020. Favors climbed to 10th position on the Utah Jazz's all-time scoring list on April 8, 2021, defeating Mehmet Okur by 7,257 points.
Favors was traded, as well as a future first-round pick, to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for a 2021 second-round pick and cash considerations on July 30, 2021. Favors was ruled out for the remainder of the season with lower back soreness on March 31, 2022. Favors was traded to the Houston Rockets in exchange for David Nwaba, Sterling Brown, Trey Burke, and Marquese Chriss on September 30, 2022. The Rockets officially renounced Favors on October 14, 2022.