{"id":479801,"date":"2026-01-19T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479801"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:35:26","slug":"brooklyn-nets-cam-thomas-drawing-praise-but-minutes-wont-rise-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brooklyn-nets-cam-thomas-drawing-praise-but-minutes-wont-rise-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets: Cam Thomas drawing praise, but minutes won\u2019t rise yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1708\">Since returning from a <strong data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1511\">hamstring<\/strong> issue, <strong data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1533\">Cam Thomas<\/strong> has carved out a steady sixth-man spot \u2014 and the <strong data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1600\">Brooklyn Nets<\/strong> aren\u2019t planning to expand it right now. The team likes the progress, but the rotation remains conservative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1910\">In Sunday\u2019s loss to Chicago, Thomas leaned into playmaking, finishing with <strong data-start=\"1785\" data-end=\"1830\">three points and 10 assists in 24 minutes<\/strong>. It\u2019s a shift the staff has welcomed, especially his willingness to facilitate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"2347\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1913\" data-end=\"1940\">We\u2019re happy where he is<\/strong>,\u201d coach <strong data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1968\">Jordi Fernandez<\/strong> said, making clear the priority is how Thomas\u2019 body responds. The caution is tied to context: Thomas is approaching free agency and has dealt with recurring hamstring issues after being limited to <strong data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2178\">25 games<\/strong> last season; since returning he\u2019s at <strong data-start=\"2216\" data-end=\"2231\">12.0 points<\/strong> on just over <strong data-start=\"2245\" data-end=\"2252\">40%<\/strong> shooting, with Brooklyn <strong data-start=\"2277\" data-end=\"2285\">4-16<\/strong> in games he has played.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2419\"><em data-start=\"2349\" data-end=\"2364\">Source: New York Post<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordi Fernandez stresses caution and health, as Thomas settles into a bench role while nearing free agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Brooklyn-Nets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479801"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479801"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479801"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}