When the news broke a week before free agency about Naz Reid’s extension, I was in the same boat as the majority of Minnesota Timberwolves fans - ecstatic to retain a player who has earned every bit of the money he signed for.
Reid is a homegrown story. He came into the league undrafted and worked incredibly hard to get better in every single year of his career. It has been fun to track his improvement, which has earned him life-changing, generational money. He went from an written-off, former five-star prospect to a highly valuable, needed asset, which is something that does not happen all too often — especially for the Timberwolves.