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0 After his best season to date, Reid averaged career highs of 13.5 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 1.3 APG and 0.8 SPG all in the most games he’s played in a season with 81 games.
He came off the bench 67 times and started 14 times, always ready to leave his mark on the game. He helped the Timberwolves to a 56-26 record, the second best in franchise history, only Peak Kevin Garnett in 2004 led them to a 58-24 record.
While Karl Anthony-Towns was injured during March, the Wolves weren’t Impacted by the loss of their all-star forward. They recorded a 10-3 record from March 16th to April 10th, and Naz Reid started 12 of the 13 games. He averaged 17.1 points on 45.4% shooting during the absence of Towns.
Naz Reid also joined an exclusive group consisting of John Starks and Darrell Armstrong as the only undrafted players to win the Sixth Man of the year award, further showing the brilliance of Naz Reid’s season.
He said that this was for the fans who have been with him since the start. “They’ve seen me work from Day 1. Since the moment I got here I changed my body, I changed my mentality, I changed the direction I wanted to go in life,” Reid said. “I think they kind of deserve that and I think just being with me, that’s super special.”
He had 30 or more points twice during the season, including his career high of 34 points vs Cleveland on March 8th, and had 20 or more points 14 times, both career bests.
Reid got 45 first-place votes, and runner-up Malik Monk got 43 first-place votes from a panel of 99 reporters and broadcasters. Both Reid and Monk had 39 second-place votes and 10 third-place votes, giving Reid the win with 352 total points to Malik’s 342.
Bobby Portis Jr. finished third, and Norman Powell finished fourth and Bogdan Bogdanovic finished fifth in the race.
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