Utah Jazz rookie Grayson Allen has been booed in several opposing arenas through the early stages of this season. Not because he's been stuffing stat sheets. These boo birds are singing because Allen is a product of Duke University — a fact Derrick Favors finds amusing.
Allen became a standout at Duke, where he won an NCAA championship in 2015. However, he developed a bit of a bad reputation after intentionally tripping Louisville's Raymond Spalding in a game on February 8, 2016.
Basketball fans remember Allen's incident, and the fact that he played for Duke — a team that's both loved and hated — doesn't help his case. Favors, however, is getting a kick out of the jeers aimed in Allen's direction.
“Every time he comes in the game on the road, it seems like he’s getting booed or heckled by opposing fans,” Derrick Favors, who played at Allen's ACC rival Georgia Tech, told forbes.com with a smile.
“It’s kind of fun,” Favors added. “I know he has a reputation, whatever reputation he had in college and [that] kind of came over to the NBA.”
As previously stated, it's not like Grayson Allen has been lighting up the scoreboards. It seems fans are just feeling a certain way about his Duke lineage.
In his 14 appearances with the Jazz this season, Allen has averaged 3.6 points on 34.5 percent shooting form the field (28.6 percent from beyond the arc) in 10.5 minutes per outing.
The Jazz will hit the road again on Friday, when they'll travel to Charlotte for a match-up against the Hornets. Tip-off inside the Spectrum Center is set for 7:00 p.m. EST. Let's see if the boo birds are out for Allen.
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