Rodney Hood Rumors

“It’s tough,” he said before a workout at UCSF Mission Bay. “But at this point, it’s lay everything on the line. If I’m a liability out there on either end, I think I’ll be doing a disservice to my team and I think I wouldn’t play. But I’ve just got to battle though it. Everybody is banged up at this point on both teams. Enes (Kanter) has been fighting his shoulder thing since the first round. If I can go out there and jog around and do whatever I can to help, I’m going to be out there.”

“I was starting to go to the basket, pulled the ball back and my feet just came out from under me,” Hood said. “But it was fine, I was able to keep playing. So I’ll be fine.” He said he’s accepted the fact that his knee won’t be pain-free anytime soon, but he said he hoped it wouldn’t keep him out of any games. The Blazers did not include Hood on their injury report for Game 2, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Oracle Arena.