Report: Blazers apply for $2.85M disabled player exception for Hood
The Portland Trail Blazers have applied for a $2.85-million disabled player exception from the NBA due to Rodney Hood's season-ending injury, league sources told The Athletic's Shams Charania.
The sixth-year forward tore his Achilles tendon during last Friday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
The disabled player exception allows a team over the salary cap to acquire a replacement for someone who's been ruled out for a given season. The maximum salary of the replacement player will either be 50% of the injured player's salary or the non-taxpayer mid-level exception. The lower number of the two is granted and does not count toward the salary cap.
Portland re-signed Hood to a two-year, $11.7-million contract this past offseason. He was averaging 11 points on 50.6% shooting, including a 49.3% mark from distance, before going down.
Forward Kent Bazemore has started in Hood's absence, but he's struggled to replicate the latter's success from deep.
The 10-16 Trail Blazers sit 11th in the West standings entering Friday's slate of action.