What is the status of Nets RFA Cam Thomas heading into summer league?
The Brooklyn Nets officially made Cam Thomas guard a limited free agent on June 29 and it seemed that the ultimate goal was to bring him back to net. However, while Brooklyn is heading Thursday in his first Las Vegas Summer League match, Thomas remains unsigned without too much noise surrounding the negotiations and there could be a reason.
“I would say that Cam Thomas wants to be paid and apparently, the nets are not too eager to pay it. I think it is probably the simplified vision of this whole situation,” said Tim Macmahon of ESPN when he appeared on the podcast “The Brooklyn Boys” with Connor Long. Thomas is one of the four limited free agents who do not seem to have much market with the way they remain not signed by their respective teams.
“He is a fairly polarizing player around the league,” continued Macmahon. “The guy can obviously mark as if he could get buckets. Can he help win? I think it’s a big question around the league. I suppose he is back in Brooklyn when next season begins, probably not in the long term. I think there could be a kind of compromise between the parts where he is behind and he is more in the short term in the short-term situation.
One of the most interesting scenarios to monitor with regard to Nets and Thomas is how much he can order from Brooklyn since Nets were the only team that could offer more than the exception of non -compatible intermediate level (NTMLE) before the Free Agency. The NTMLE should be $ 14,104,000 million for the 2025-26 season, so although Thomas obtained a substantial increase, it would not be what he and others expected him.
A subject on which Macmahon submitted is the fact that Thomas’ value around the league seems to change according to who is asked for his opinion on him. “If you give Cam Thomas more than $ 10 million a year, all the dead season has gone from (explanive),” Netsdaily reported on Wednesday as the opinion of Brooklyn’s off -season changed, according to the source of the Netsdaily League.
Thomas seems to have struck the free agency at an unlucky era, because most of the teams did not release the ceiling space necessary to pay someone from their elk to a contract adapted to their talent, an agreement of around 20 million dollars per year according to general consensus during the season. Time will tell us that Thomas ends up obtaining a contract of this magnitude, but if he does not do, his stay with the nets could be short -lived while he enters his peak.
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