The Bucks have waived Cam Thomas, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (via Twitter). The move is official, Milwaukee announced in a press release (Twitter link).
As we noted in a separate story, Thomas was cut loose because the Bucks wanted to promote Pete Nance, who was signed to a multiyear standard contract. Nance was previously on a two-way deal.
It’s a surprising development, since Milwaukee targeted Thomas immediately after the trade deadline. However, he was on a minimum-salary contract that only covered the rest of the season, so he makes sense as an odd man out if he isn’t part of the team’s plans beyond 2025/26.
According to Charania (Twitter link), general manager Jon Horst pitched Thomas on the idea of being a key part of the Bucks’ present and future, and head coach Doc Rivers compared the high-scoring guard to a couple of Sixth Man of the Year winners he coached earlier in his career (Jamal Crawford and Lou Williams) shortly after the deadline.
While this hasn’t been confirmed, it’s possible that Thomas may have been the one who sought a change of scenery. The 24-year-old had been playing fewer minutes (16.6 per game) with the Bucks than he was with the Nets (24.3 MPG) and received a pair of DNP-CDs last week. Thomas asked Brooklyn to waive him last month.
In 18 games with the Bucks, Thomas averaged 10.6 PPG, 1.9 APG and 1.6 RPG on .431/.275/.754 shooting. The former first-round pick is a notoriously subpar defender and also struggled with turnovers in Milwaukee (1.4 per game).
The Bucks will carry a dead-money cap hit of $844,607 if Thomas clears waivers in a couple days. Thomas would be a free agent at that point, but he won’t be eligible to compete in the playoffs because he was released after March 1, notes Keith Smith of Spotrac (via Twitter).
If Thomas is claimed on the waiver wire, his cap charge would transfer to the team that adds him and Milwaukee would no longer carry his salary on its books. However, he would remain ineligible to participate in the postseason.
Go get him Brad!
Hope you arent talking about Stevens.
he won the bucks 1 game. which is 1 more than myles turner did all year
Is that his ceiling?
Atlanta sign Cam Thomas and James Wiseman
They suck and either way they wouldn’t be eligible for post season
Gabe Vincent, Keaton Wallace and Caleb Houstan are so much better right…..
Hello
The Wiseman guys just can’t help themselves
Shoot I’m still rooting for Jahil Okafor
Does that make me a Okafor guy?
Free Darko!
Free Thomas Robinson
Yes.
Bucks ownership continue doing all they can to frustrate Giannis out of town.
That team is so screwed. They won’t get all that much for injury-prone over-30 expiring Giannis. Four more years of Lillard dead cap charges. Turner and Kuzma still overpaid. When Ryan Rollins is your greatest reason for hope… ugh.
But hey… they won a chip.
That’s what I have been saying, who cares about the players coming back from the Dubs, Bucks mega-messed up by not taking the Warriors first offer of 4 FRP, as now they likely won’t go higher than 3 FRP and probably only 2 for Giannis this offseason.
All KD had to do is accept the Warriors deal and the world re-aligns itself again. I blame KD not going back to GSW on all these teams problems.
lol remember when idiots in here said the nets were dumb for cutting him loose. Now another bad team cut him. He clearly isn’t it in the locker room
You’re telling me no one wants a low efficiency chucker who is also a massive negative on defense???
Better learn a foreign language
Doesnt matter, he aint listening.
The tough stretch for the 2k HOF’ers s continues. The (real) basketball world pretty much gave up on Thomas when he was 19, as evidenced by his fall in the draft to the bottom of the first round. That’s when he needed to turn things around if he was going to.
People were hyping that signing like the Bucks got a steal lol
LJ Cryer > Cam Thomas
Well they signed him for a playoff push, and it’s clear now they ain’t making the playoffs so why keep him if he’s not part of the future.
The irony of him showing off the Bucks logo in the pic despite not giving af about playing team ball isn’t lost on me.
Bronx Tale lols ……
“Saddest thing in life is wasted talent”
How many teams will he go through before he learns the art of self reflection?
Rumors have it that he is still shoot first, second, third.
Cmon akme, another free guard. Bulls need more and more guard
Hahahhahahaa
Nets were right?
Davey J:
The Bucks signing Cam Thomas is intended to make Giannis ask to be traded.
Also, the Bucks cutting Cam Thomas is intended to make Giannis ask to be traded.
This is the fire your agent kind of situation.
If they encouraged you to turn down the Nets 1+1 at $15 million with a team option, fire your agent.
If they encouraged you to take that $15 to $30 mil deal and instead you decided to take the $6 mil qualifying offer, you don’t listen to your agent and fire them anyway.