Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas became a restricted free-agent this summer after a 2024-25 season that saw him put forth the best numbers of his four-year NBA career. Thomas hasn’t been re-signed by Brooklyn yet and there seems to be a gap between what the former LSU Tiger wants and what the Nets want to pay him. There may be an answer to what’s going on.
“I think he’s going to go back to Brooklyn, I don’t think there’s any other real suitors out there for him right now,” NBA insider Jake Fischer said during a recent livestream for Bleacher Report. Fischer was relaying any information that he had on the restricted free-agents that still haven’t been signed by their respective teams and Thomas doesn’t seem like he’s ready to sign just yet.
“Cam Thomas to me seems to be the most likely of all the restricted free agents to take the qualifying offer,” Fischer said. “Throughout all of my conversations around his restricted free agency, I have not heard that Brooklyn has offered Cam Thomas anything further than a two-year deal with a team option on the second deal that I don’t believe is going much north, if north at all, of the $14.1 million mid-level exception.”
Thomas, 23, 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 last season for the Nets. Part of what could be complicating his restricted free-agency is the fact that he achieved those numbers while playing in a career-low 25 games as he dealt with a troublesome left hamstring that bothered him throughout the season.
For someone like Thomas that is reportedly expecting to earn somewhere around$30 million per year on his next contract, this offseason could be tough for a player looking to get paid. Due to the amount of teams that do not have cap space at this point of the summer, Thomas could either take the reported offer from the Nets or play on the $5.99 million qualifying offer depending on what intel he has at the moment.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: NBA insider gives update on Nets’ Cam Thomas’ free-agency status