Portland Trail Blazers swingman Rodney Hood suffered an injury scare on Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers when he banged knees with Ben Simmons late in the fourth quarter.

Although Hood could put little weight on his leg when he was helped to the locker room, he told Jason Quick of The Athletic that he does not believe the injury is serious:

Hood needed the ice because he banged knees with Philadelphia guard Ben Simmons with around 4:33 left in the game. When he fell to the court, the Blazers’ wing admitted he was scared. He dug his face into his forearm and lay motionless.
“I couldn’t feel nothing,” Hood said “My whole knee felt swollen. I wasn’t thinking the worst — like, I didn’t think it was the end of my season — but I just wanted to see if I could put pressure on it.”
When he was helped to his feet by trainers and teammates, he couldn’t put his full weight on the knee, and needed the shoulders of teammate Jusuf Nurkic and Jesse Elis, the team’s director of player health and performance, to help him into the locker room.
Back on the examining table inside the trainer’s room, team doctors poked, pushed and extended the knee. They determined there was no structural damage, and wrapped the knee in ice.
“Hopefully, just knee to knee,” Hood said. “A bruise. And hopefully the swelling goes down. I think I will be fine … I don’t think nothing weird is going on.”

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Any long-term absence would be a serious detriment for Hood and the Blazers. Portland has started the season at 3-3, but Hood has been one of the most productive players in the rotation.

He scored 25 points on 9-of-11 shooting against the Sixers and is shooting over 50 percent from beyond the arc through the first six games.