Derek Hood (basketball)

Derek Dwayne Hood (born December 22, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player.[1]

Derek Hood
Personal information
Born (1976-12-22) December 22, 1976
Decatur, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight222 lb (101 kg)
Career information
High schoolCentral (Kansas City, Missouri)
CollegeArkansas (1995–1999)
NBA draft1999 / Undrafted
Playing career1999–2005
PositionPower forward
Number55
Career history
1999Charlotte Hornets
1999–2000Quad City Thunder
2000–2001Kansas City Knights
2001Snaidero Udine
2001–2003Mobile Revelers
2003Toros de Aragua
2003–2004ASVEL Villeurbanne
2004–2005Yakima Sun Kings
Career highlights and awards
  • NBA D-League champion (2003)
  • 2x All-NBADL Second Team (2002, 2003)
  • Second-team Parade All-American (1995)
  • Fourth-team Parade All-American (1994)
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
  1. Derek Dwayne Hood Archived January 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. NBA Development League. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  2. Derek Hood. NBA.com. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  3. CBA Recap (Quad City-Idaho)". CNN/SI. March 8, 2000. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  4. Dave Thomas. "CBA - Sun Kings' Hood a coaches' player". Yakima Herald-Republic. January 28, 2005. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  5. 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.
  6. David Boyce. "A serious player; Knights' Hood always ready for work". Kansas City Star. December 18, 2000. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  7. Derek Hood D-League Statistics. basketball-reference.com. Retrieved on December 21, 2009.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. https://schools.risd.org/LibertyJH
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