Derek Hood (basketball)
Derek Dwayne Hood (born December 22, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player.[1]
Personal information | |
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Born | Decatur, Illinois | December 22, 1976
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
Listed weight | 222 lb (101 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Central (Kansas City, Missouri) |
College | Arkansas (1995–1999) |
NBA draft | 1999 / Undrafted |
Playing career | 1999–2005 |
Position | Power forward |
Number | 55 |
Career history | |
1999 | Charlotte Hornets |
1999–2000 | Quad City Thunder |
2000–2001 | Kansas City Knights |
2001 | Snaidero Udine |
2001–2003 | Mobile Revelers |
2003 | Toros de Aragua |
2003–2004 | ASVEL Villeurbanne |
2004–2005 | Yakima Sun Kings |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com |
Hood, a 6'8", 222 pound small forward born in Decatur, Illinois, attended the University of Arkansas. He played two games for the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Hornets during the 1999-2000 NBA season.[2]
Hood also played in the CBA with the Quad City Thunder[3] and Yakima Sun Kings,[4] in Italy with Snaidero Udine,[5] in the ABA with the Kansas City Knights,[6] in the NBDL with the Mobile Revelers,[7] and in France with ASVEL Villeurbanne.[5]
In 2015 Hood was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor.[8]
Currently Hood is a math teacher at Liberty Junior High also he is the athletic director and he coaches 7th and 8th grade alternating between them each year [9]
Notes
- Derek Dwayne Hood Archived January 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. NBA Development League. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- Derek Hood. NBA.com. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- CBA Recap (Quad City-Idaho)". CNN/SI. March 8, 2000. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- Dave Thomas. "CBA - Sun Kings' Hood a coaches' player". Yakima Herald-Republic. January 28, 2005. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- Jonathan Woog. "What ever happenedd to... the 1994 Street & Smith's High School All-America Team Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine". Street & Smith's. 2005. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- David Boyce. "A serious player; Knights' Hood always ready for work". Kansas City Star. December 18, 2000. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- Derek Hood D-League Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- https://schools.risd.org/LibertyJH
External links
- NBA D-League profile @ NBA.com
- Derek Hood player profile @ NBA.com