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Transcript: Pelicans center Derrick Favors media availability - July 7, 2020

On if going to Orlando and being away from his children was a difficult decision:
"It definitely was. Five weeks is definitely a long time, and with me personally, I have my son's birthday coming up on the 22nd and my daughters' birthday on August 14th, so it was definitely a tough decision, but I got the blessing from my family to just go out there and do my job and they'll hold it down for me while I'm away. I'll probably FaceTime my kids probably every day – well, my family probably every day I'm down there.