Let's start with Hood.

Hood is a RFA - I'll hold your hand like a child because you don't seem to understand what that implies here. No team is giving up a rotational player + a 1st when they can sign him to an offer sheet in the summer and potentially get him without giving up any assets. To think that a team would give up those assets just for the right to match his contract is dumb

Now let's move onto Sac's cap.

You're just flat wrong on Sacramento's cap. They have 20 million coming off the cap.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/SAC.html

That woulda taken you 10 seconds, tops, to check....or wait, let me guess - there's another conspiracy theory in which the NBA is going to create a 1 time rule for guys named Zach to renege on their deals and force Koufos and Temple to not take their player options.

Taking the least probable scenarios - that Utah had a better offer but turned it down, that Sac would just shrug their shoulders at saving 17million bc they already have money coming off the books - and attributing it to some conspiracy theory is the realm of idiots.