{"id":124689,"date":"2026-02-06T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:30:21","slug":"nets-waiving-cam-thomas-in-long-awaited-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124689\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets waiving Cam Thomas in long-awaited divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cam Thomas era is over in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The Nets waived Thomas after Thursday\u2019s NBA trade deadline passed, letting the 24-year-old enter free agency.<\/p>\n

\"BrooklynCam Thomas #24 of the Brooklyn Nets looks for the open man as Ayo Dosunmu #11 of the Chicago Bulls defends. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

After the Post had reported on Jan. 19 that Brooklyn and Thomas were headed for a divorce, ESPN was the first to report that the team had made it official.<\/p>\n

Thomas was averaging 15.6 points.<\/p>\n

After Brooklyn had offered Thomas multiple deals this summer \u2014 a two-year, $30 million contract with a team option, or a one-year, $9.5 million pact with incentives up to $11 million \u2014 he rejected both. Thomas inked the $5.99 million qualifying offer, and that was the beginning of the end in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Thomas suffered four left hamstring injuries since the start of last season, the latest on Nov. 5. Since his Dec. 27 return to the court, he\u2019d lost his starting job.<\/p>\n

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There had been no interest in Thomas at last year\u2019s trade deadline or over the summer, due to his poor defense and lack of playmaking. <\/p>\n

Clearly there was little market for him as of Thursday \u2014 or the Nets couldn\u2019t find an acceptable move, considering the Qualifying Offer gave him a no-trade clause.<\/p>\n

At this point, Thomas is free to try to find a new home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like Cam has a bright future. It just takes somebody to believe in his talent and his skill,\u201d said Kevin Durant, who was Thomas\u2019 Nets mentor from 2021-23. <\/p>\n

\u201cScorers and guys that score the basketball at a high rate, they get taken for granted in this league a bit. We\u2019re so used to loving defenders and playmakers and guys that can be connectors, sometimes scorers get taken for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cam Thomas era is over in Brooklyn. The Nets waived Thomas after Thursday\u2019s NBA trade deadline passed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,11480,21,34471,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-124689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cameron-thomas","tag-nba","tag-nba-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}