Derrick Bernard Favors was born on July 15, 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He spent most of his childhood in Atlanta. He wanted to become a basketball player. Both his height and his skills a s sisted him to become one. He started honing his abilities at a small age which helped him a lot later on. Derrick is of Black ethnicity and is of American nationality.
Derrick attended the South Atlanta High School, where he played high school basketball. He led Atlanta to Georgia Cla s s AAA state champions. He then went on to join Georgia Tech and played college basketball from 2009 to 2010. Derrick became the third pick in the first round at 2010’s NBA draft. He was picked by the New Jersey Nets. He went on to play with them from 2010 to 2011. Later he went on to play for Utah Jazz. He has had many injuries including a serious injury; back spasm on December 26th, 2015. He has been noted as ACC Rookie of the Year in 2010, Naismith Prep Player of the Year in 2009 and Mr. Basketball USA in 2009 among many others.
Derrick does not have a long dating history. He is very much focused on his work at present in the NBA. Derrick is reluctant on speaking about his personal life in front of the public. He is not seen with many women in public. Derrick has never spoken so much about his past relations and affair. He has a girlfriend named Shivolli DaSilva. DaSilva owns a production company named Volli. Both Derrick and DaSilva often organize sports for youngsters. DaSilva and Derrick recently gave birth to twins in August 2015. Not much is known about his twin baby girls but Derrick got a lot of tweets congratulating him for being a father. He currently lives in North Salt Lake with his lovely family. He has not talked much about getting married in any of his interviews, but Derrick seems to be happy with what he has at present.
Derrick is currently 24 years old and stands tall at the height of 6 feet 10 inches. He has the weight of 247 lbs. Derrick has a well-defined face and a masculine body which grabs the attention of many of his fans which specially includes females. Derrick has the charm, body, and skills to make his audience drool and melt at his matches. Derrick’s net worth has been estimated to be 6 million dollars which come out of his huge salary from his NBA career. Derrick has garnered a lot of fame and fans till date for his exceptional skills in basketball. The bio of the very talented and handsome, Derrick Favors can be found on various social media sites including Wikipedia and Twitter.
by Bchrome, 20 Apr, 2016
