Rodney Hood is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on October 20, 1992 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. In 2014, he joined a Jazz team led by He joined a Jazz squad led by Gordon Hayward in 2014..
Hood attended Meridian High School in the city of Meridian, Mississippi. As a junior during the 2009-10 season, he averaged 22.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 4.4 assists per game, while leading the Wildcats to the Class 6A finals; thus Meridian advanced past each school in the Mississippi High School Activities Association’s tournament, only to fall to Starkville in the championship game, 57–51.
As a freshman at Mississippi State, Hood started in 29 of the 32 games that he played for the Bulldogs in 2011–12. He was named to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) All-Freshman Team after averaging 10.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2 assists per contest while shooting 44.3 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from three-point range.
His parents are Ricky Hood and Vicky Hood.
He transferred from Mississippi State to Duke and sat out 2012-13 college basketball season because of NCAA transfer rules.
Rodney Michael Hood (born October 20, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Mississippi State and Duke universities before deciding to take his talents to the NBA. Hood was drafted in 2014 by the Utah Jazz; and in 2018, he was dealt to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was then traded to Portland in 2019.
