Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors has emerged as one of the better young big men in the NBA, a process that was profiled by the Sporting News' Adi Joseph.
About to begin his sixth season in the league, Favors reflects on what it was like to get traded from the New Jersey Nets to the Jazz during his rookie year, the good and bad of playing behind Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson early in his career and his life on and off the court now.
“I didn't expect to stay (long term), no,” Favors says, more than four years after the trade and two years after he signed a four-year contract extension with the Jazz.