Exclusive Hood re-signs in Portland

[hoopsjock]

Ah okay. I thought we were using 150% of previous salary rule but we weren't.

I don't think we could have got anyone better with MLE anyway. Hood is good.

The max we could offer Hood without using the MLE was $4.16 million.

 

[hoopsjock]

Turner helped us win game 7. Happiest day of the year seeing his ass off the team.

Hood is much better. But I worry.

I remember both games. Doesn't mean I have to like him. Nice try, though. Am I supposed to like him because of that? Is that like a requirement? Didn't think so. My opinion stands.

You said you weren't impressed by him. Other than the OKC series and getting hurt in Game 7 against Denver he played really well for us.

 

[hoopsjock]

Is it possible we have a trade and woj knows while quick doesn't? I didn't see a retraction or correction from woj about the 8 mil number

I've been wondering that. Normally I'd believe Woj 100% over Quick but in this case I think it makes too much sense that it's the Tax-MLE so who knows.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Is it possible we have a trade and woj knows while quick doesn't? I didn't see a retraction or correction from woj about the 8 mil number

I thought about this as well. But if this were the case, I also feel like we needed a center (like Kanter) more. I feel like Kanter would have taken the bigger exception if we’d have offered it. So, I’m inclined to think we are offering the taxpayer exception to Hood, even if we clear more space. But who the hell knows....?

 

[BrianFromWA]

I've been wondering that. Normally I'd believe Woj 100% over Quick but in this case I think it makes too much sense that it's the Tax-MLE so who knows.

Yeah, and it's kinda weird that it's not even the non-Tax MLE (which would start at 9.258M). Even if you said they were splitting up the non-Tax MLE among a couple of players (which they're allowed to do), it doesn't super make sense that you'd only leave (9.258-7.805=1.453)M on the table for another free agent. You're better off just using one of the unlimited Vet Min deals, unless you wanted to keep an MLE length (4 years, vice 2 for the Vet Min) available for a cheap player who'd sign for more than 2 years (like Layman did). Jontay, maybe?

 

[Portland2014]

What's the max we can offer him next year given that we'll have early bird rights?

 

[hoopsjock]

What's the max we can offer him next year given that we'll have early bird rights?

It depends on the average salary for this season. It will probably be around $10 million.

 

[illmatic99]

says he turned down more money to come back

 

[Natebishop3]

I really like Rodney and I was hoping to keep him more than Kanter.

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm convinced that all we need to do is get another star on the team and Dame would win him over. Just take the risk, even if we're not on their list.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

says he turned down more money to come back

He seems like such a good dude.

 

[Dougnsalem]

says he turned down more money to come back

Thanks much for the post! I hadn't seen this, and appreciate it.

NO has been knocking it out of the park with these players he's getting. Here's another intelligent, well spoken dude that loves playing here. I wanted Kanter more, but I'm SO happy we got Hood, and love how he talks about the team. Sooner or later, all those NBA "Stars" are gonna want to come here. By then, we probably wont even need them. Hopefully.... Lol

 

[SIeepwalker]

says he turned down more money to come back

Just saw that, love that guy !

 

[tlongII]

I love Hood. He’s been in a lot of deep playoff runs.

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Next summer we are gonna be able to give Hood a better contract, I’m thinking like a 4/40-50.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Next summer we are gonna be able to give Hood a better contract, I’m thinking like a 4/40-50.

Maybe that was why he resigned here for less? He will actually get more in the long run.

 

[illmatic99]

Spotrac has him as being signed with the non-bird exception for 120% of his previous contract, so our TP-MLE of around 5.7 mil is still intact. So Woj's 2yrs/ 16 mil was correct and not Quick. We have 13 guys on roster at the moment.

 

[blazerfan11]

Spotrac has him as being signed with the non-bird exception for 120% of his previous contract, so our TP-MLE of around 5.7 mil is still intact. So Woj's 2yrs/ 16 mil was correct and not Quick. We have 13 guys on roster at the moment.

What’s the non-bird exception?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Spotrac has him as being signed with the non-bird exception for 120% of his previous contract, so our TP-MLE of around 5.7 mil is still intact. So Woj's 2yrs/ 16 mil was correct and not Quick. We have 13 guys on roster at the moment.

Spotrac is incorrect. His non-bird exception was only worth 4.16M; it could not have been used to sign him for the value they listed.

 

[illmatic99]

What’s the non-bird exception?

NON-BIRD EXCEPTION -- This is also a component of the Veteran Free Agent exception. Its name is somewhat of a misnomer, since Non-Bird really is a form of Bird rights. Players who qualify for this exception are called "Non-Qualifying Veteran Free Agents" in the CBA. They are veteran free agents who are neither Qualifying Veteran Free Agents nor Early Qualifying Veteran Free Agents, and include the following:

• Players who finished the season with a given team, who have played no more than one season without clearing waivers or changing teams as a free agent.
• Players who were Early Bird free agents, but whose team renounced its right to use the Early Bird exception to re-sign the player.
• Players who were to be Larry Bird or Early Bird free agents, were playing on one-year contracts, and were traded mid-season.

This exception allows a team to re-sign its own free agent to a salary starting at up to 120% of his salary in the previous season (not over the maximum salary, of course), 120% of the minimum salary, or the amount needed to tender a qualifying offer (if the player is a restricted free agent -- see question number 42), whichever is greater. Raises are limited to 5% of the salary in the first year of the contract, and contracts are limited to four seasons when this exception is used.

A partial season counts as a full season for the tenure calculation related to Bird rights. If a team signs another team's free agent to a Rest-of-Season contract mid-way through the season, then at the end of that season the player is a non-Bird free agent.

Starting January 10 of each season, this exception begins to reduce in value. See question number 26 for details

 

[illmatic99]

Spotrac is incorrect. His non-bird exception was only worth 4.16M; it could not have been used to sign him for the value they listed.

Was it not 6.5 mil *120%?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Was it not 6.5 mil *120%?

No--Hood only made just shy of 3.5M last year.

 

[illmatic99]

No--Hood only made just shy of 3.5M last year.

Is it possible Hood's contract is only for 4 mil/yr?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Is it possible Hood's contract is only for 4 mil/yr?

We've not seen any reports of that nature. The other factor to consider is the idea that Kanter was given a timeline to make a decision on an MLE offer. If we were re-signing Hood via any method other than the MLE, then there would not have been any need to put that kind of restriction on Kanter.

 

[ABM]

https://www.nba.com/blazers/forwardcenter/re-signing-trail-blazers-hood-prioritizes-happiness

BY RE-SIGNING WITH THE TRAIL BLAZERS, HOOD PRIORITIZES HAPPINESS

 

[dviss1]

Bump

 

[Propagandist]

I'm glad we're keeping Hood, but as things stand right now, we're going to get destroyed in the boards. Especially while Nurkic is out.

Little did you know........ He's got shooters!!!!!

 

[blazerfan11]

Little did you know........ He's got shooters!!!!!

Guess who was #1 in the NBA in rebounds per 36 minutes last season? Hassan Whiteside.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2019_per_minute.html (click on the TRB column to sort by total rebounds)

And in 2015-2016 when he played 32 minutes per game he led the NBA in rebounds per game at 14.

Addition: Looking at last season, HW had games of 24 rebounds x 1, 23 x 1 , 20 x 3 and so on.
He had 21 games of 14 or more rebounds.

 

[BBert]

So...he's excited about having shooters because he's tired of getting so many rebounds?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Unless Rodney Hood becomes a knockdown shooter, it could be the same old story for the Blazers

One excerpt...

Numbers from Cleaning the Glass suggest that lineups with Hood at the small forward did not thrive last year. As a team, the Blazers were good enough in the mid-range, but the effective field-goal and at-rim percentages for Portland dipped with Hood at the 3. This lineup performance differential has been the case for much of Hood’s career, and so there’s concern that the Blazers may suffer if he starts at forward instead of at guard.

Defensively, the Blazers don’t have much of a choice of where to plunk Hood. McCollum can’t guard forwards, and so the 6-foot-8 Hood will carry that load. But the good news is that the delineation between guard and small forward in Portland's offense has not been as stark as it’s been on other teams. That's partly because of how Stotts likes to operate, and partly because Portland hasn't had a traditional, high-caliber small forward in that starting role. On offense, we should expect Stotts to deploy Hood more as a typical guard, and much like his backup Kent Bazemore, that will mean that Hood needs to become a more effective shooter in a 2019-20.