Nets guard Cam Thomas on his free-agency:
“I definitely want to be back in Brooklyn. It’s definitely home for me being drafted there. You definitely build a bond with a lot of people there so I love being there, but at the same time, you still got to do what’s best for you.” https://t.co/IjdWywDNiE
— Sharif Phillips-Keaton (@SharifKeaton) June 20, 2025
The Brooklyn Nets have an important decision ahead of them as they have to decide if they will be re-signing guard Cam Thomas during this offseason. Thomas is a restricted free-agent this summer so Brooklyn has more leverage when it comes to re-signing Thomas, but it seems like he is maintaining that he wants to come back to the Nets.
“I definitely want to be back in Brooklyn. It’s definitely home for me being drafted there,” Thomas said during an interview with WTKR, a local news station in Chesapeake, Virginia, where Thomas grew up. Thomas will be hosting a community day at River Crest Community Center on Saturday, but before that, he made sure to spoke about how he feels about the next step in his career.
“You definitely build a bond with a lot of people there so I love being there, but at the same time, you still got to do what’s best for you,” Thomas continued. After what Thomas has done in his career, especially after the past two seasons, he is definitely looking at a big payday, whether he comes to the Nets or signs with another team in free-agency if Brooklyn doesn’t match his initial offer sheet.
Thomas, 23, is coming off a 2024-25 season in which he averaged 24.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game while shooting 43.8% from the field and 34.9% from three-point land. Thomas had the best season of his four-year career since being the 27th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, but he also did so in just 25 games as he dealt with persistent left hamstring strains.
Since Thomas was ruled out in March for the rest of the season, he has reiterated that his intention is to continue playing with the Nets, with the implication being that his coming back has to make sense for him as well. With Brooklyn having by far the most cap space in the league this summer, money shouldn’t be an issue so time will tell how much it will cost for Thomas to re-sign.