Has Cam Thomas Played His FINAL Game With The Brooklyn Nets After ANOTHER Hamstring injury?

Has Cam Thomas Played His FINAL Game With The Brooklyn Nets After ANOTHER Hamstring injury?

On today’s show, has Cam Thomas played his last game with the Nets after suffering another hamstring injury? I’ll dive into that and what his NBA future could look like right now. [Music] You are Locked on Nets, your daily Brooklyn Nets podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome in to the Locked On Nets podcast. right here on the Locked On podcast network. Now the number one sports podcast network. It’s your team, the Brooklyn Nets, every single day. I’m Eric Slater, Brooklyn reporter for clutchoints.com. Thank you for making me your first listen of the day. The show is 100% free on all those great platforms. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code lockdown NBA for $20 off your first purchase. And on today’s episode, I’m going to be joined by a special guest to talk about Cam Thomas’s future amid another hamstring injury. We’ll talk about whether we think Cam could return to the Nets next season, whether a trade is the most likely outcome, and what we think his NBA future will look like. And joining the show now, we got Brian Lewis of the New York Post. And Brian, we’re here today to talk about Cam Thomas and answer the question of whether Cam Thomas has played his last game with the Brooklyn Nets. And the reason we’re talking about this is because Cam has suffered another left hamstring injury, he was ruled out for at least three to four weeks. So with the uncertainty stemming from the failed contract negotiation this season, that brings about the question of is this the end of the road for Cam Thomas and has he appeared in his last game? Before we get into kind of the weeds of that, we just have to discuss the timeline a little bit. And you know, on Friday, the Nets said Cam would be out for at least three to four weeks. So my just speculative read on that is, you know, 3 to four weeks re-evaluated in 3 to four weeks is what the Net said. So for me, conservatively, you’re probably looking at at least around five weeks that he’s out because there needs to be a ramp up after he gets cleared for play. And that would put you right up to December 15th when which is the date that him and a lot of the other free agents who resigned last season offseason are eligible to be traded. So that brings an interesting conversation about. But in terms of the timeline, I know you just put out a piece where you talked to a medical specialist who knows a lot more about this than I do. So, you have anything to add on the timeline there of when we could maybe see him ready to be back on the court? Well, I’m going on what the experts that are far more intelligent than I am would tell me. Uh, obviously, yes, you’re right. The Nets put out their time frame. Uh, I did talk uh with a Dr. Fible who is he’s an expert in the field uh working from Cedar Cyani and he pointed out listen they don’t give grades as you know because every time I ask I’m chided for it uh but he proposed based on his best guess that this is in all likelihood a grade two strain and that he would anticipate four to six weeks and he’s looking at another two week ramp up after he gets a clean, right? So, what we’re looking at is a little bit lengthy. I mean, it could theoretically be twice what the shorter end of the net’s uh given timeline could be. So, if they’re estimating three, this very well could be six. Um, which is not the greatest news possible for Cam Thomas. It’s not great for them. Certainly not great for him. Yeah, it’s not great for Cam, you know, regarding his market, which I spoke about after news of the injury broke because he obviously suffered this injury three times last season. So, a reoccurrence is not a good sign. But if that is the case, what you just said, and he’s out, say, six weeks or maybe even longer, that puts you well into trade season. he will be eligible to be moved as will a lot of other free agents across the NBA. And my take on this has been if that’s the case and he’s not able to play until after that December 15th date or well after it potentially, I think that Cam may have played his last game with the Nets and I’d go as far as saying Cam has played his last game with the Nets in that regard. Now, the caveat is if there is a trade on the table, which we’ll get into in a little bit, but just from the Nets perspective, I mean, you look at how all this has played out, and I just I don’t, you know, I’m running under the assumption that the Nets don’t want to bring him back or they’re not going to be able to come to an agreement or that he’s not a priority for them in free agency this coming summer. I just don’t really see the use in keeping him on the team because if that’s the case, all he serves to do is really just take on ball reps away from these guys like Jory or whatever other rookie point guard gets called up or a Drake Pal whoever or whoever else you want to say because we saw in the games that Cam was playing, he was posting monstrous usage and Jory the contrast between the games that he was playing with Cam and these last two games without him. I mean, it’s night and day. like his usage has just gone up through the roof these last two games. He’s taken 14 shots, five two-pointers, nine three-pointers. He has 10 assists. We’ve seen other guys like Drake Pal and Noah Clowny get a lot more on ball opportunities. So, just given the way this has played out, I don’t really see the use of keeping Cam on this roster if he’s not a long-term priority, which it seems like he isn’t based on the Nets’s actions. But what is your take on whether based on that injury timeline, whether Net Cam has played his last game with the Nets? Well, for me, actions always speak louder than words. Uh, so while the Nets will take the high road and say that Cam is valuable to them and they think he’s a great player and a wonderful talent and has played hard and all of these things. both if you listen to what they say when they say what they’re looking for as they’re drafting and then you take a good look at who they draft and the sorts of players that they draft and then you watch the actions in free agency and the supposed reported offers that they gave to Cam Thomas and I have no reason to believe that the reporting is inaccurate. What it tells me is while they do respect him and he does have fans uh at the highest level of the organization, I can also tell you that that doesn’t mean that they’re going to pay above the odds or what they view as above the odds to keep him. And I think Cam’s opinion of what he deserves or what he warrants is in an entirely different stratosphere than what they think. And I’m not sure that there’s a happy medium. So that’s my long- winded way of saying I completely agree. I don’t know that there’s a way for them to meet in the middle, which means I don’t know that there’s a way for him to be back. Yeah. And there, you know, from all the reporting, there was a big gulf between what Cam wanted and what the Nets were willing to offer him. A lot of reporting said that he was, you know, asking for contracts or going into negotiations with comparisons to contracts like an Emanuel Quickley, Jordan P, you know, whatever Jaylen Green, whatever other young guards you want to say, who are making contracts multi-year in the $30 million annually range. And the Net’s biggest offer was reportedly 2 years 30 million with a team option in the second year. So that’s a big gulf and I just my stance on it has been that I don’t see the Nets coming very far off their position and I don’t see Cam coming all that far off his position and if that’s the case I just don’t there like you said there really isn’t a happy medium for them to meet in the middle. Now, the caveat outside of the only way that the Nets keep him outside of that, maybe just let him walk in free agency is if a trade isn’t available, which we’ll talk about, or if they genuinely think that there’s any benefit to keeping him on the roster, which I think there’s a lot of people who support Cam Thomas, you know, strongly within the Nets fan base and I think would push back and say like there is a benefit to keeping him on the roster uh through this season. I don’t necessarily agree, but what is your take on that? Because to me, in a season where it’s a lot about development, his presence just it really just seems like it’s taking away a lot of onball reps and I’m watching these games where Jagor Gentleman is watching Cam Thomas for the overwhelming majority of the game and he’s just a bystander and I don’t really see how that benefits his development. Yeah. I mean, Cam puts the dominant in ball dominant, right? I mean, just he’s going to suck a lot of air out of the room. That’s just the way he plays. That’s the sort of player that he is. And if you’re looking to develop particularly, you know, a guy like Jaor, uh, Cam’s usage rate is going to be so stratospheric that it’s going to keep Jaor off the ball. Now, if you think that’s where Jaor is going to end up being, fine, I guess. But I do think while Cam can help you win a game or win two games or win three games because there are games where he’s going to go off and threaten 40 points or maybe get 40 points and I do think tasting victory is good for any young players development. big picture, I’m not sure that taking the ball out of Jaor’s hands and watching Cam pound it is necessarily going to be in the long-term best interest of the Nets. Yeah. And it’s it’s not always like Cam is a very ball dominant player and it’s not like I’m not saying this in the sense that he’s just like always selfish or he doesn’t want any of these other guys to have the ball. Like it’s not always his fault. I think it’s almost like when you have him on the court with Jagor and some of these other young guys, it’s very easy for them to defer and just give the ball back to Cam Thomas who’s working very hard to get the ball back whenever he passes it. Like that is just the way that it goes a lot of the time. So that’s not even, you know, it’s I guess it’s somewhat of a slight on Cam, but not so much. It’s almost like you need to force Jagor and some of these other guys to do more stuff on the ball and just put them in the position where they have to do that because if they have Cam Thomas on the floor with them and Michael Michael Porter Jr. on the floor for that with them, they can defer to him and like that would be great if th those other two guys played a little bit more of a style I think that was more married to the development of these other young guys. And that just hasn’t been the case from what we’ve seen with Cam Thomas, you know, with him posting, you know, multiple games posting usage rates between 35 and 40%. That’s just not a style of play that really makes sense for, you know, a team that just drafted three rookie point guards and lead ball handlers. So, that’s kind of how I’m seeing that. But the next question that we have to answer is if it doesn’t make sense for these two sides to remain in partnership, is a trade on the table, not a particular trade, but any trade, and can they work that out? and will it get to a place where Cam could be off the roster sooner rather than later. So, we’ll get to all that when we continue locked on Nets after a quick break. The NBA is back and there’s no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Even if you miss the start of the game or want to ride the hot hand, FanDuel has live bets on everything from who will score next to fourth quarter comebacks. Plus, you can even combine your live bets into a same game parlay for a shot at a bigger payout. It keeps every game exciting, especially when your team’s making that late push. Right now, FanDuel is giving new customers $300 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. 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Speeds may slow above 35 gigabytes on unlimited plan. Taxes and fees extra. See Mint Mobile for details. Coming back from the break on today’s Locked on Nets episode, talking with Brian Lewis from the New York Post about Cam Thomas and whether he has played his last game with the Brooklyn Nets amid his hamstring injury. And Brian, talking about a trade market with Cam Thomas is always an adventure because it’s really tough to gauge what you know the market looks like, but there is an added wrench into this because with Cam signing his qualifying offer, he does have a no trade clause. So, if we get to that December 15th date where he is eligible to be traded, whether or not there’s interest with um in him around the league from other teams, he’s going to have to agree to any trade. So, this is really him having his say. His representation would have to work with the Nets to find a deal. And, you know, I’m not sure how expansive the market for Cam Thomas is going to be outside, you know, just based on what we saw with how his free agency played played out this summer, but I do think it’s a situation where I think some team will be willing to take him just based on getting a player like him at that discounted price. when you think about, you know, kind of projecting forward what a trade market for Cam Thomas could look like, what is your expectation, Ben? Well, listen, I’m not I’m certainly not going to sit here and tell you that a guy who’s going to average 20 something points a game is untradeable. What I would say is as of a year ago, uh, to say that the market was tepid would be probably overstating it. Nets or CAM did not have a market. All right. The Nets were not fielding calls with people looking to trade for Cam Thomas. Now, it’s possible that that’s changed, right? um in the last year. I don’t have any knowledge that it has and I don’t think him suffering a fourth hamstring injury since the beginning of last season has helped. Um because in addition to his playmaking and his defense, which I do frankly think there were times last year which was improved, I do think his defense got marginally better at points last year. Uh the third concern with Cam is that he hasn’t shown that he can stay healthy. That’s an issue, right? So yes, the scoring is wonderful, but when it’s being done on a usage rate like 35%. And then you have to show can you create for others? Will you create for others? Can you defend? Will you defend? And can you stay healthy? That’s a lot of question marks. Yeah, it’s a lot of boxes that Cam is going to need to check in that regard. And just based on all of this stuff, based on, you know, his contract situation, also the health, as you said, how he plays, and just what the market was this off season for like these score first, like shooting guards. There was a bunch of them, and there really wasn’t much of a market across the NBA. It’s an archetype in a position that is being increasingly devalued. So, I’m at the point with Cam talking about what a trade could look like. You know, I’m not very hopeful that the Nets get anything of value back for Cam, especially given the fact that whoever trades for him, it’s probably going to be a rental because, you know, when whatever team acquires Cam in a trade, he’s giving up his bird rights in that trade. So, he can only be resigned at a certain amount that I think is well below what he’s going to be looking for. So, unless that team that trades for him is a cap space team, there’s a very good chance that he’s going to be looking at other destinations in free agency. But in terms of what the Nets are going to get back, I mean any kind of like a valuable asset, like some people will say a first round pick. I that’s completely off the table in my opinion. I think there’s zero chance they get a first round pick. I would frankly be shocked if they got like a valuable second round pick. I just don’t know if there’s going to be any trademark. I think a team will want him. I think there’s teams that will be interested in getting him given he’s only making $6 million and they can match salary easily. But I think we might be looking at like a bad or multiple bad second round picks. I just don’t see it really exceeding that. I think it’s overly ambitious to think that they’re getting a first round pick for Cam Thomas. As I said, I think it’s there’s no chance. I I don’t think they get market for him a year ago, right? In terms of the Nets fielding calls, right? There are players that people have checked in on uh and that the Nets had decided to hold. Cam Thomas was not one of those. The market was not there and I don’t think that’s changed. So, I would not expect to get a first round pick for him. A second might be feasible depending on, you know, the team that’s involved. Um but then again Cam has to be willing to go to set team and he that is part of the issue. He was very adamant about in his view uh taking back the power I guess in whatever negotiations he wanted to have control over his destination and now he has that. Uh, so it would have to be a destination that K’s interested in. You first you have to find a team that wants it and then does he want to go there? Yeah. And and that’s an interesting conversation. It was the next thing that I’m going to bring up. But I feel like the Nets are kind of in a position to force his hands somewhat. I don’t think they want to play hard ball with him. But if it’s getting to a situation where we’re approaching the second half of the season, it’s clear the Nets are going to be, you know, very in on the development of these rookie guys. He’s trying to earn a contract. And this was like the danger with him taking the qualifying offer in a contract season because as soon as you take that qualifying offer, I said it at the time, it greatly limits the incentive that the Nets have to feature you and continue giving you all these reps. So, we get into the second half of the season and they want to prioritize the development of all these younger guys and he’s trying to earn a new contract, they can just say, “We’re we’re not going to play you. We’re not going to give you like all of these onball reps in this featured role.” at that point getting to any destination that perceivably wants him or would value him more would make more sense for him. And this is something that I’ve talked about in the past and I want to get your opinion. If I were Cam personally trying to earn a new contract, I would want to probably get out of this Net situation because I think in my opinion, I could be wrong. You can tell me if you disagree. I think him getting to a team that actually has some real aspirations and him showing himself to be a valuable player in a real situation where a team’s actually trying to do something and playing within a structure. I think that that’s going to go farther to earn him a contract than him playing with the tanking Nets and putting up, you know, 25 and two on poor efficiency for a team that has no aspirations. That’s just been my take and that’s why I think Cam could benefit more by a change of scenery. But what is your opinion on that? I would agree wholeheartedly. I think part of the issue with Cam and I have never heard anybody say that Cam doesn’t work hard, doesn’t practice hard, um doesn’t put time and effort into his craft. Um and he he also put time and effort into his body. You notice he reshaped the body. Part of the issue is that Cam repeatedly doubles down on his strengths. Cam is working hard on the things that he’s already good at, which is being a bucket and isolation scoring. Um, I’m not sure about him rounding out the other areas, right? This comes back to the same issue. All right. So, I mean, I would I would tend to agree with you 100%. Um, I think Cam would benefit by going to whatever. I’m not even going to spec I’m not even going to pick a team because I don’t want to be aggregated, right? But I think he would be better off going to a winning team, playoff team, contending team, however you want to describe it, even if that meant being a six-man and losing two or three minutes of playing time. Uh but being a microwave scorer off the bench as a six-man and impacting winning and helping them come up in the standings or being that missing offensive piece off the bench and showing that he can play winning basketball. I think he would benefit from that both in terms of his reputation around the league, which is very mixed and I’m being kind, but also in terms of what he garners in terms of his next contract. I do not know whether he agrees with that assessment. I And I don’t know either. Like that’s something that’s that I’ve talked about in the past and I said it after that Spurs game and I caught a lot of flack for it when he had the 40 points and zero assists. I said that I felt like and this was a fear of mine this whole time with the Nets as soon as they kind of flipped to the rebuilding situation with him as the main guy. I feel like this situation is kind of pushing him further towards the things that or as you said doubling down on those scoring and those things and pushing him further in that direction and not kind of putting him in a structure where those other things he’s going to have to you know try to improve whether it be defense or rebounding or playmaking. And I feel like that’s what we’ve seen early this season. And I just I you know, we you look at it from Cam’s perspective and I don’t know what he’s thinking in terms of what benefits him the most, but to me it might be a situation where he might think like we know he views himself as a star. So he might think that staying on this Nets team and averaging 25 to 28 points a game over the course of a whole season is much better for his market than going and being a supporting piece on a you know play a team with playoff aspirations and doing some more supporting role stuff or being a six-man. And you know I disagree with that thought process if that’s what he’s thinking but maybe I’m wrong but you know it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out. But this whole Cam Thomas uh tenure with the Nets has been interesting to say the least. So when we close out Locked on Nets, we’re going to talk about how we feel about Cam’s overall tenure. 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Coming back from the break, closing out today’s locked on nets episode, talking with Brian Lewis of the New York Post about Cam Thomas. And Brian, Cam Thomas’ Net’s tenure has been a whirlwind. It’s in my opinion, it seems like it’s coming to a close, but this is a player who has continued to be one of the most polarizing players in the league. He can, at least among fans. I think there’s a little bit more consensus among front offices than fans would like to think, but you know, he’s a player who has this elite scoring ability. He was a 27th pick in the draft and by all accounts has far exceeded his draft slot in terms of expectations. And yet the discourse surrounding him it remains kind of scattershot. But you know he came in he obviously sat on the bench those first two years and then these last two seasons cracked the rotation with the Nets kind of going to a rebuild and then a tank and has had a feature role. But even then it kind of just seems like this Nets team has never really been too in on him despite all the things that he’s flashed. And that’s coincided with a portion of the fan base in the NBA community overall that gets more and more invested and you know enthralled by his scoring. So, it’s just been a really strange dynamic. When you look back on his Nets’s tenure, just how do you think you’ll view it and like what are what is your evaluation of, you know, how both sides kind of went about this? Well, listen, I he outperformed his draft slot. I I don’t think there’s anybody that could deny that. Um, not all draft not all first round picks are created equal, right? Drafting 27th is not the same thing as drafting seventh. It’s just not. um he’s been a successful draft pick. He has outperformed where he was drafted and he should look at that as a success. Uh having said all that, um I mean he’s provided some completely unforgettable moments. Uh several of them have been in the garden. Um, but I think I presumed from the minute he came back on a qualifying offer that that spelled his exit, you know, at some point, whether that was in February or whether that was in June, one way or the other, um, nothing that’s happened since then has changed my mind. I still think that is the most likely scenario is him exiting Brooklyn. I don’t know when um but that’s always been my assumption since he came back on a qualifying offer. So, good draft pick, good scouting, good draft pick, a guy who’s outperformed his draft slot. uh a guy who probably could have been even better um just simply with the self-awareness to work on certain things and certain aspects of his game. But now again I don’t like playing amateur psychiatrist so I won’t do it. Um, but it it’s very clear that when faced with certain things, his natural inclination, I mean, he’s a competitive guy and a very proud guy. That’s how he got to where he is. That’s how he’s become one of the better natural scorers in the NBA, right? But his natural inclination in a lot of these situations is to naturally be defensive against what I guess he would view as a narrative. So when he’s asked after he gets hurt a third time with the same hamstring at the end of last year, hey, is there anything that you might need to change in terms of kinesiology or gate or diet? No, of course not. I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. Well, now he’s got a fourth one. Um, he came back and he clearly put in effort on his body because you don’t that’s not an accident. You don’t get in that good shape by accident. Doesn’t just happen. He put in the work. But when asked about it, he didn’t want to acknowledge it. He said, “Well, it looks good in the mirror.” That was such a weird That was a very strange response. And yeah, like I asked him. I get it. I understand. He just That’s but that’s the way he operates. He doesn’t want to acknowledge what this is about, even though his teammates have acknowledged that that’s what it was about. Yeah. And I talked to Cam um you know, we talked to Cam after the fourth hamstring injury just happened. I asked him a similar question about whether or not anything’s going to change. And he said, “Look, I’ve been doing everything right. It’s just an unfortunate play. It’s bad luck.” And look, like, I’m not a kinesiologist. I’m not a physical therapist. I’m in no position to say why these hamstring injuries are occurring. I think something probably needs to change, but you know, that’s not my area of expertise. But in ter in terms of looking back on Cam and this Net’s tenure, I think that it’s just such a weird dynamic because, as you said, by all accounts, successful draft pick, like 27th pick, is going to have a long-term NBA career that the overwhelming amount of the time that is not the case for a number 27 pick. And yet, I still feel like there’s somewhat of a failure because you have this player who has, you know, I think a good amount of potential. I don’t think he has like superstar potential like people say he does just due to some of his limitations. But if he would have just or if he would just invest into some of those other aspects of his game and if he would commit to to improving some of those things and changing the way he approaches things and the style of play, he could have a lot more potential and he could get a lot closer to that star label that some people put on him. And he just hasn’t done it. And I think obviously a good amount of that is, you know, due to him and a a failure of him, but I also think the next organization, they haven’t gotten through to him either. And that’s a failure on their part in my opinion. So I just feel like that’s a strange dynamic. And also, you know, the dynamic in the first couple seasons with like all the chaos that you could speak on more because you were here before I even got here on the Nets and I don’t think that that did him any favors either. But the way that I’m looking at it is ultimately I think that there’s it’s a success, but then I think after that success became clear that okay, he has potential, there’s been failure on both sides. Well, if you’re saying it was a chaotic time in Brooklyn, yeah, that’s an understatement. There was a lot of chaos and a lot of drama. Uh, I do think Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden are three spectacular teachers to learn from. If you’re trying to become a bucket, if you are trying to improve your one-on-one offensive game and learn to become a better scorer, to go from a an average scoreer to a good scorer, a good scoreer to very good, very good to great, it would be hard to find better guys to learn from. And he did. He was a sponge. Uh he picked their brain and they were more than willing to mentor him in that. All of them were. uh so in that aspect I think he benefited now now all other aspects yeah in that particular aspect it’s a very narrow field what we’re talking about here there were other aspects where I don’t think the drama that went on in that organization helped uh I do not think Kevin and again I don’t like playing amateur psychiatrist but Kevin Wolflat tell you He’s not overly interested in holding somebody’s hand. He’s not He’s interested in showing up early, working harder than everybody else, and being there late, and becoming a weapon, which he is. But, you know, he expected his teammates to all be adults and mature and grown, every one of them. and he was not gonna follow anybody around or try to go inside their brain and rewire them to be something that they’re not. Um, I can’t speak to James because James wasn’t here as long. Okay. But Kevin was Kevin was here for a minute and Kevin Durant was not interested in trying to remake somebody at all ever. Just wasn’t him. So from that aspect, I don’t know uh whether Kevin was going to prod, hey, you you really need to become a better defensive player or you really should work on this aspect or you really should improve how you come across in these interview or any of that stuff. He’s not gonna do that. I mean, we’ve heard Kevin talk and we’ve heard him say like Kevin has become a good passer, a high level defender throughout his career. So, not saying he doesn’t care about that stuff, but it comes back to bucket getting with him. That’s always been his thing. That’s why he hitched his wagon to Kyrie Irving for so many years. And I ultimately I think there’s obviously value in that. But I think, you know, his approach and the way he viewed that, I think that he’s like NBA players aren’t good GMs a lot of the time. I think that that’s become clear uh throughout NBA history. And I think Kevin was a pretty great player, pretty bad GM. And in terms of mentorship, as you said, the offenses, you know, bucketing and all that stuff. I think Cam clearly took things from those guys. And I think that they did what they could to help him in that regard. In all the other stuff, I don’t think it seems like Cam has taken that much. And how does this play out with Cam? We’ll see. Ultimately, it’s going to be interesting to see. And I hope that he goes on and has a great career. I just don’t think it’s going to be in Brooklyn. But hey, never say never. So, we’ll see. But Brian, appreciate you for coming on and taking the time. You guys can find Brian’s work on the New York Post. Also, follow him on X. You can see it there at New York Post Lewis. But thanks for taking the time, man, and I’ll have you back on soon. That does it for today’s episode of Locked on Nets. Hope you guys enjoyed the talk with Brian. 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