The Brooklyn Nets have gone through the 2025 NBA offseason by being aggressive with their cap space and acquiring more draft capital as they continue their rebuild. Brooklyn has significantly reshaped the team ahead of the 2025-26 season as a result of the 2025 NBA Draft and trades, but there is still one player for the team to make a choice on.

“Cam Thomas, no, he does not really have a market to my understanding,” NBA insider Jake Fischer said during a livestream for Bleacher Report. Fischer was answering a question regarding the status of Nets guard Cam Thomas, who is still a restricted free-agent despite the reporting that Thomas wants to come back to Brooklyn and the Nets being interested in re-signing him.

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On June 29, HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto reported that the Nets extended the $5.99 million qualifying offer to Thomas, officially making him a restricted free-agent heading into the beginning of NBA free-agency. Scotto mentioned in his reporting on the situation that the Nets were interested in re-signing all of their restricted free-agents, including forward Ziaire Williams and center Day’Ron Sharpe.

What Fischer is referring to in terms of Thomas not having much of a market is more about the state of the NBA and the teams having money to spend in free-agency at this point in the offseason. Thomas, along with players like Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey, Philadelphia 76ers guard Quentin Grimes, and Golden State Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga, is still on the market due to the nature of restricted free-agency as a whole.

Restricted free-agents don’t have much of a choice over where they can go because the teams that hold their restricted free-agency can match whatever offer sheet they get in free-agency, which usually means that the team will bring the player back. However, most teams don’t have the money left to truly bid on the remaining free-agents so Thomas has two choices that can make.

He can either try to get the most money he can get from the Nets now or play on the qualifying offer next season with the goal of being an unrestricted free-agent next summer. That is something that former teammate in forward Trendon Watford did and once he had the choice to dictate his next move as an unrestricted free-agent, he left for the Philadelphia 76ers this summer.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets’ Cam Thomas believed to not have much of a market