Derrick Favors is a professional basketball player who plays Power forward / Center for the Utah Jazz as number 15. Favors’s height is 6 ft 10 in. Favors’s weight is 265 pounds. Favors was born on July 15, 1991, in Atlanta. This article takes a deep dive into Derrick Favors’s net worth.
In high school, Derrick Favors played basketball for South Atlanta High School (Atlanta, Georgia). Favors played basketball in college with Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men’s basketball (2009-2010) and started playing professionally in 2010. In the 2010 National Basketball Association draft, Favors was chosen number 3 in round 1 by the New Jersey Nets.
Favors played for the New Jersey Nets during 2010 as well as the Utah Jazz in 2010-present. Some of the highlights of Derrick Favors’s career include: NBA All-Rookie Second Team, Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award, Mr. Basketball United States, Mr. Georgia Basketball, McDonald’s All-American Game MVP, and First-team Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team.
Player yearly earnings can range between a couple thousand dollars and millions of dollars per year, depending on a number of considerations. Although typical NBA players make a salary of about $2 million, a few with D-league crossover contracts earn as little as $50,000. The salary cap for NBA players is around $100 million, although as of today nobody brings in anywhere near that much money. The top players in the league earn nearly $35 million. Outside of the National Basketball Association, salaries can dip below $20,000 per year for minor league teams.
Derrick Favors’s salary in 2018 was $12 million.
So what is basketball player Derrick Favors’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Derrick Favors’s net worth as of 2018 is:
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