The Lakers lost their chance to strengthen! Ridge renews his contract with the Timberwolves and continues to assist Edwards

According to the exclusive report of the famous reporter Shams, Naz Reed rejected the player option of $1,502 next season and instead reached a new five-year, $125 million contract with the Timberwolves, with an average annual salary of $25 million. The fifth year of the contract is the player option. In this way, this insider with good offense and defense will stay in Minnesota Sue for a long time.

In the past season, he has played 80 regular season games for the Timberwolves, averaging 27.5 minutes per game, scoring 14.2 points, 6 rebounds and 2.3 assists, and has played in a total of 15 games in the playoffs, averaging 25 minutes per game, contributing 10.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 0.9 blocks. He is the most important player on the Timberwolves bench. In the past three seasons, Ridd has been one of the three players in the league to score 2,000 points, especially in the 23rd to 24th seasons, he won the honor of the best sixth man.

In fact, the contract renewal between the Timberwolves and Reed was the result of two-way trip. Since the offseason, many teams in the league have shown strong interest in Reed. Especially the Lakers, who lack high-quality inside, have pursued him unremittingly and put forward conditions such as higher salary and starting guarantees, but Reed is still unmoved, but insists on being in the Timberwolves. In this way, the Lakers missed an excellent opportunity to strengthen, and they need to continue to find new players for their poor inside lineup.

Rider's three-point shooting percentage this season is close to 40%, which is undoubtedly a killer weapon for an inside player. His two-tower combination with Gobert, inside and outside often wins 11.8 points per round, which is one of the reasons why the Timberwolves can defeat the two powerful opponents of the Lakers and the Warriors in the playoffs. The Timberwolves are likely to maintain the basic framework of last season's lineup. At that time, Reed will continue to provide firepower to the team on the bench, and do his best to assist Edwards, and launch an attack on the championship again.