Derrick Favors To Miss Utah's Season Opener
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:09 pm
Derrick Favors will miss the regular season opener for the Utah Jazz against the Portland Trail Blazers due to a bone bruise and IT band soreness in his left knee.
Favors missed Utah's final five preseason games and was only able to participate in a limited capacity in Utah's final two practices.
Boris Diaw will likely start at power forward in place of Favors and second-year forward Trey Lyles should see an increase in minutes.
Utah is also without Gordon Hayward and Alec Burks.