If you’re a Portland Trail Blazers fan this season, you may already be under the spell of recent acquisition, guard Rodney Hood. If you’re a 10-year old who got to meet Hood at Comcast Family Night at the Wattle’s Boys and Girls Club last week, you’re in complete awe.
“He’s really tall, and nice,” said one star-struck young man. “He told me not to take my time here for granted.”
Hood, who joined the Blazers in mid-February from the Cleveland Cavaliers, spent a bit of time at the Club on Friday, talking about his own experiences as a Boys and Girls Club kid in Meridian, Mississippi.
“I started going to the Boys and Girls Club when I was five- or six-years old, and by the time I was a teenager, I was there all day, every day, in the summer playing basketball. The Boys and Girls Club is part of my DNA – it’s forever ingrained in everything I do.”
Hood was credited with saving a recent game against the Charlotte Hornets, his 27 points – all coming in the second half – marking a new season-high for him.
“We are so grateful for our long-standing partnership with Comcast,” said Melissa Froman of the Boys and Girls Club of Portland. “Comcast makes it possible for our kids to enjoy new experiences and enables many of our families to have access to the internet, most for the first time, through its Internet Essentials program.”
Along with dinner, a DJ, games and prizes, including tickets to a Blazers game later in the month for ten lucky kids and their families, the event also included an Internet Essentials sign-up opportunity. To top it all off, two deserving families also received their own laptop, courtesy of Comcast.
