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Huskies Add Shooter to Roster in Portland's Moses Wood

The newcomer is the son of David Wood, a former NBA player originally from Washington state.

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After parting ways with up to six players, Mike Hopkins and his University of Washington basketball team on Monday finally added one, picking up 6-foot-8 Moses Wood from the transfer portal by way of the Portland Pilots.

Moses, in a sense, is another Erik Stevenson, a well-traveled shooter only four inches taller.

Similar to the other guy, Wood will join his fourth college basketball program in the UW after playing a season for Tulane, redshirting one season and playing one for UNLV, and spending the past two with Portland's WCC entry. In the photo accompanying this story he is shown driving on Oregon's Franck Kepnang, and now they're Husky teammates.

Wood was the second-leading scorer (15.3 points per game) and top rebounder (6.3) for a 14-19 Pilots team.

Moses Wood drives on Gonzaga's Drew Timme.
Moses Wood drives on Gonzaga's Drew Timme.  :: Todd Wayrynen/USA TODAY Sports

Most importantly, he has been utilized for his 3-point shooting ability wherever he's gone, connecting at 37.3 percent for Tulane, 36.6 for UNLV and 44.2 and 40.7 for Portland.

This past season, he scored double figures in 22 of 33 games, with a season-high 28 points against San Francisco and 26 twice against Pacific. In some of his biggest outings, Wood provided 21 points against North Carolina, 19 twice against Gonzaga and 16 against Villanova.

Overall, Wood has played in 120 games and started 72 for his previous three teams.

He's the son of David Wood, who was another well-traveled basketball player. A 6-foot-9 forward, he emerged from Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington, to play two seasons at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington, and finish up at the University of Nevada. 

The older Wood wasn't drafted in 1987, but he carved out a 20-season pro basketball career, including seven in the NBA for eight different teams.

He played in France, Spain and the Philippines, and Moses, one of four Wood brothers, was born in Limoges, France.

Curiously, an online profile for David Wood says he became deeply interested in politics once his pro basketball career ended, even mentioning that he's a staunch Trump supporter who attended his Washington, D.C., rally on Jan. 6, 2021, though apparently not the violent incident later at the Capitol building.

 

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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