Jazz 99, 76ers 71
PHILADELPHIA -- Forward Derrick Favors had 20 points and 12 rebounds as the Utah Jazz routed the Philadelphia 76ers 99-71 on Friday night.
Guard Rodney Hood added 17 points and guard Alec Burks scored 15 off the bench for Utah (1-1). Center Rudy Gobert, a native of France known as the "Stifle Tower," had eight points, 11 rebounds and six blocked shots.
Utah limited the Sixers to 30.2-percent shooting in their home opener.
Two reserves, guard/forward Nik Stauskas and forward Jerami Grant, notched 12 points apiece to lead Philadelphia (0-2), which trailed by as many as 31 points late in the game.
Sixers center Jahlil Okafor, the third pick of this year's draft, had 10 points and six rebounds in his first home game.
Burks contributed four points to a 13-0 Utah flurry midway through the first quarter, erasing a 12-11 deficit, then had a four-point play in an 18-4 run by the Jazz early in the second quarter, when they went up 46-27.
Utah's lead was 50-33 at the half, at which point Burks had 12 points and Favors had chipped in eight points and six rebounds.
Okafor had eight points to top the Sixers, who shot just 34.5 percent from the floor in the first two quarters.
The Jazz then held Philadelphia scoreless the first 5:16 of the third quarter, while reeling off 13 points themselves, to go up 63-33. Gobert had a pair of blocks, as well as a thunderous dunk off a lob from Raul Neto, in that stretch.
Stauskas sank a 3-pointer with 6:44 left in the quarter for Philadelphia's first points of the second half. The Sixers were never closer than 20 the rest of the way.
NOTES: Earlier in the day the Sixers exercised the fourth-year contract option on C/F Nerlens Noel, as well as the third-year options on G/F Nik Stauskas and C Joel Embiid. ... Stauskas, acquired in the offseason from Sacramento, returned after missing Wednesday's opener in Boston with back spasms, and the entire preseason with a stress reaction of the right tibia. ... The Sixers continue to be without G Tony Wroten and G Kendall Marshall, who are recovering from offseason knee surgery, as well as F Robert Covington (knee sprain) and F Carl Landry (torn wrist ligaments). ... Utah is without G Dante Exum, who also underwent offseason knee surgery.