Perhaps the most interesting part of Portland’s trade to acquire Rodney Hood over the weekend (at least to cap nerds like myself) wasn’t reported until Tuesday morning, when Bobby Marks tweeted that the Trail Blazers did not use the traded player exception acquired in the Noah Vonleh trade last February to take on Hood, instead keeping that open for another move this week:
Minor cap note from the Rodney Hood trade on Monday. Portland still has a $3.5M trade exception and elected to pass on creating 2 small exceptions worth $1.