Derrick Favors talks to members of the media at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Utah Jazz season ended with Wednesday's loss to Houston in the playoffs.
SALT LAKE CITY — It's the end of an era in Utah.
After 8½ years with the Jazz, forward Derrick Favors — the longest-tenured player on the team — was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans by the Jazz so Utah could make salary cap room after acquiring Indiana's Bojan Bogdanovic.
On Tuesday, Favors expressed his appreciation to the franchise on Instagram.