INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- For the first time since being traded from Utah to Cleveland, Rodney Hood and Alec Burks will play against their old team on Friday night.
But unlike DeMar DeRozan, who wanted to put the entire Toronto Raptors franchise into the basket in his much-anticipated first meeting against them on Thursday night, Hood and Burks don't have any animosity toward the Jazz.
"It's all positive because it feels like it's been so long since I've been there," Hood said following Friday's shootaround. "I know getting traded and moving, it can sometimes seem negative, but I think about all the good times I had playing when I was in Utah and playing with those guys and starting with my rookie year, being with AB, until now.