Derek Hood (basketball)
Derek Dwayne Hood is an American former professional basketball player.
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.
Hood also played in the CBA with the Quad City Thunder and Yakima Sun Kings, in Italy with Snaidero Udine, in the ABA with the Kansas City Knights, in the NBDL with the Mobile Revelers, and in France with ASVEL Villeurbanne.
In 2015 Hood was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor.
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
