NBA Free Agency 2018: 5 potential destinations for Derrick Favors

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5. Atlanta Hawks

Okay, admittedly, no one’s rushing to put on a Hawks jersey, but the Hawks do have about $30 million in cap space. If Favors wants a pay day, although he’s been paid well up to this point in his career, he could look to join a team that has settled at the bottom of the standings. Such a team is usually the kind of team with money to spend.

The added pull of Atlanta is Favors’ having grown up in Georgia. The return home is almost always a whisper when thinking about where to play and live.

Of course, the Hawks have already been down this road with Dwight Howard and that road ended with Dwight in Charlotte (and now Brooklyn).

Atlanta holds the number three pick in the draft, which many believe they want to use on Luka Doncic, who is 19, which probably marks Kent Bazemore’s years in Atlanta as numbered. Dennis Schroder is signed through 2020-21, which is a rather neutral place to be. Favors would add some stability to this lineup in a way that Miles Plumlee and Dewayne Dedmon necessarily can’t. Then again, signing with Atlanta at this juncture, as a 26-year-old whose only tasted the playoffs three times, seems like a surefire way to disappear into the NBA ether.

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