Cam Thomas

Similar to a song playing on repeat, the Brooklyn Nets watched an identical storyline take shape during 2024-25’s first week: defenses focusing on containing Cam Thomas’ first half play, only to be unprepared for the post-halftime avalanche that follows. Eager to leave his seven-point, nine-shot first half — and the Milwaukee Bucks’ defenders — in the rearview, Thomas wins a game of pick-and-roll cat-and-mouse, working a fake half-spin that frees him of Delon Wright’s intrusion. Unrushed in the stepback that follows, Thomas ends the third quarter with style, burying a 3-pointer to push Brooklyn’s lead to five. Driven by the goal of presenting his head coach with a first-ever win, Thomas defined the term “professional scorer” during the Nets’ successful home opener on October 27, 2024. Too much to handle for one of the East’s elites, Thomas produced an efficient 32-point showing (25 in the second half), alongside five rebounds, two assists, and two steals.