Naz Reid’s unlikely Sixth Man of the Year award win is paying big dividends for some NBA futures bettors.
One DraftKings Sportsbook bettor claimed the prize earlier this season when he won $160,000 on a $2,000 bet at odds of 80/1 on Reed. According to Ben Fawkes of X.
another bettor won $7,000 You are out of a $50 bet FanDuel Sportsbook The decision was made in early December when Reed’s Sixth Man of the Year odds were 140/1.
Reed started the season as an afterthought in the sixth-man race, and BetMGM Sportsbook has him at +5,500, tied for the 23rd-best preseason odds in the league.
Reid was 80/1 at BetMGM before slowly coming into the conversation in late February, when Kings guard Malik Monk and Mavericks winger Tim Hardaway Jr. seemed to have separated themselves from the pack. Ta.
However, due to Monk’s injury and the quiet end of the season for Hardaway and other candidates, Reed returned to the team.
The fifth-year big man has been on a roll in the final months for the upstart Minnesota Timberwolves, surpassing nearly all preseason expectations en route to 56 regular-season wins and catapulting himself into the award race.
Reed averaged 16.5 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.2 blocks and 1 steal per game over the final two months, some of which were starts after Karl-Anthony Towns suffered a knee injury. .
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Even after the regular season ended, oddsmakers did not consider Reed a favorite to win.
Monk finished at -250 on DraftKings, well above Reid’s +225.
The voting was a close call, with Reed receiving an additional second-place vote (45-43) over Monk, with both players receiving 39 second-place votes and 10 third-place votes.
