“I could go back years and years ago and name each guy I was supposed to be traded for,” Favors said after Wednesday’s shooraround. “Every year, I can just name them. I have fun with it.”
This year, the rumor is from The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor — the writer, not the former Jazz general manager of the same name. And it has Favors as a potential trade candidate in exchange for Chicago’s Jabari Parker. As O’Connor describes it, “Favors is an awkward fit next to center Rudy Gobert, and his $16.9 million on the books for next season is non-guaranteed, meaning he could be one of the pieces involved.