Derek Hood is a 41 year-old basketball player. He was drafted in 1999 to play in NBA. Hood is from Kansas City, Missouri (United States). In high school Derek played in the 1995 Nike Hoop summit and scored 7 pts. His awards and honors were Parade All-American Fourth Team in 1994 and Parade All-American Second Team in 1995. Derek Hood went to college in Arkansas in 1999 and got an award of SEC All-Tournament Team.
NBA Career
Hood has spent 5 years of his life playing basketball and his stats are few to many but for the five years that he was playing, he went through 4 teams from 1999 to 2004. These teams were the Charlotte Hornet (1988), Philadelphia Sixers, Poenix Suns, and twice with the Dallas Mavericks. From 1999 to 2004, he went a month with each of the 4 teams, but with the Dallas Mavericks he went 2 month but different years. He trained with each team from 1999 to 2004. When he was not signed with a team, he was either playing in the G League or Interenational Baketball.
The Break Years
While Hood was a free agent he went to play in the G League. This was in 2001 when the Mobile Revelers selected Derek in Round 1 with pick 2 in the 2001 Supplement NBA development League Draft. Then, in 2003 to 2004 he went to play in the International basketball games. Derek played for the ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne team in the Euroleague. He has 6.70 pts per game and 67 pts in totals.
End Results
In 2015, Hood was in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Honors. He is now one of the most inspiring baketball players in professional basketball.