Derrick Favors will come off Utah's bench Friday night

Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors (knee) will be active on Friday versus the Los Angeles Lakers and is expected to come off the bench.

What It Means:

Favors is also expected to be on a minutes restriction, so is not on the DFS radar on Friday night. He has missed more than three weeks with a knee injury, so it will take some time to get him back into form. Boris DIaw started in Utah's opener and could be in line for another start on Friday.

Our yearly projections have Favors averaging 16.1 points and 8.1 rebounds over 31.9 minutes per game this season.