{"id":460845,"date":"2026-02-05T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460845\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:09:08","slug":"sources-nets-waive-cam-thomas-making-him-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460845\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Nets waive Cam Thomas, making him a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The apparent contentious relationship between Brooklyn Nets<\/a> guard Cam Thomas<\/a> and the franchise came to an end with the team releasing Thomas, allowing him to enter free agency, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n

Thomas is averaging 15.6 points in 24 games this season (eight starts), after missing 20 games due to a left hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

“Super excited ready to actually help and contribute to another team,” Thomas told ESPN Andscape’s Marc Spears. “My next team is getting elite scoring, good playmaking and a good combo guard.”<\/p>\n

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Thomas took a $5.9 million qualifying offer over the summer after the two sides failed to come to terms on a contract agreement. He averaged 24 points and 3.8 assists in 25 games last season, suffering from similar hamstring issues.<\/p>\n

It gives Thomas a jump start on free agency after dealing with restricted free agency, with the Nets having the option to match any offer sheet.<\/p>\n

Now, Thomas is free to even sign with a contender as a scorer off the bench or perhaps in a starting role.<\/p>\n

The relationship with the Nets seemed to sour when Thomas was pulled from a Jan. 23 game against the Celtics for refusing to shoot when the shot clock was running down, preferring to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The apparent contentious relationship between Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas and the franchise came to an end with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-460845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}