Naz Reid Wins 2024 NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award

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Naz Reid Wins 2024 NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award refers to a series of memes and posts celebrating American professional basketball player Naz Reid for winning the 2024 NBA Sixth Man of the Year award for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Reid's victory was announced in April 2024, sparking photoshopped edits, fan edit videos and NBA Quote Cards parodies of him, being mostly shared on Twitter (X) and TikTok.

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On April 24th, 2024, Minnesota Timberwolves center Naz Reid was named the 2024 NBA Sixth Man of the Year^[1]. NBA^[2] posted the award on X (shown below), which amassed more than 928 likes and 508 retweets in a day.

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Reid's Sixth Man of the Year award was highly celebrated by fans on the internet, who posted photoshopped images of the professional basketball player, like the news X^[3] page @BleacherReport, who posted (shown below, left) on April 24th, 2024, a NBA Quote Cards with the headline "Sixth Man Of The Year," which garnered roughly 24,000 likes and 2,100 reposts in a day. On the same day, X^[4] user @Tallsdurf posted a photoshopped image of Reid on the cover of Time Magazine (shown below, right), which amassed more than 429 likes and 16 reposts in a day.

On April 24th, 2024, TikTok^[5] user @xlblankxl posted a fan edit of the moment Naz Reid's name was announced as the winner of the NBA Sixth Man of the Year award. The post (shown below, left) received roughly 503,000 plays and 103,000 likes in a day. TikTok^[6] user @zlatarec also posted Reid's fan edit on the same day, which garnered over 196,000 plays and 45,000 likes in a day.

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