His phone started blowing up as soon as the news broke.
Texts from Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert.
A Facetime call from Donovan Mitchell and Royce O’Neale.
A message from an old partner in crime.
“Pocket pass,” Joe Ingles wrote. “We back!”
And just like that, after a season away from the franchise where he spent a decade blossoming into one of the best big men in the game, Derrick Favors knew he’d made the right decision—the decision to come back home.
“Everything just feels right,” Favors said Wednesday after officially signing a new multi-year deal to return to the Utah Jazz.