Wolves, center Reid agree on 3-year, $42M deal

The Minnesota Timberwolves middle Naz Reid has agreed on a brand new three-year, $42 million contract that features a participant possibility, his brokers Sean Kennedy and Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports activities Administration advised ESPN on Sunday.

The deal retains Reid out of free company and secures him to the franchise the place he arrived as an undrafted one-and-done participant and developed into an indispensable frontline performer for the Timberwolves.

The participant possibility for the 2025-2026 season offers Reid an opportunity to get one other new contract in two years.

Reid had his finest season — 11.5 factors and 4.9 rebounds per sport — earlier than a season-ending wrist fracture stored him out of the ultimate weeks of the common season, the play-in event and Western Convention playoffs. The Timberwolves clearly missed his presence within the opening-round loss to the eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets.

The Timberwolves risked shedding Reid in free company starting subsequent week, however Kennedy and Schwartz had spent a number of months negotiating with Timberwolves president Tim Connelly and at last reached a deal on Sunday.

After arriving from LSU in 2019, his emergence as a bench participant behind Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert within the Timberwolves’ frontcourt made him a sexy goal all through the league. He additionally shot 53.7 p.c and made 34.6 p.c of his 3-point makes an attempt.

After the All-Star Break in February, Reid scored 242 factors in 312 minutes of enjoying time; solely MVP Joel Embiid of Philadelphia averaged extra factors per minute over that span, based on ESPN Stats and Info analysis. NBA Finals MVP Nikola Jokic was third.

Reid, who turns 24 in August, would’ve change into an unrestricted free agent regardless of his age as a result of he signed a four-year cope with Minnesota coming into his rookie 12 months — simply as Jalen Brunson had performed with Dallas earlier than leaving for the New York Knicks final summer season.

ESPN’s Tim Bontemps contributed to this report.