LAS VEGAS -- After Rodney Hood's performance in the 2019 postseason, particularly versus the Denver Nuggets, it was reasonable to assume that the 6-8 guard/forward had done enough to price himself out of Portland. With no bird rights and only the taxpayer midlevel exception, worth roughly $5.7 million, to send in the free agent market, retaining a player such as Hood, who has started 227 of 320 games over the last six seasons, seemed like a bit of a long shot, especially when considering that numerous teams had significant cap space to spend.
And according to Hood, those assumptions were correct.