Cam Thomas is the Best Player in the NBA, I Fear

There is a lot going on in the NBA right now. LeBron James just scored the most points in the history of basketball. Kyrie Irving was traded to Texas to ruin Luka Doncic’s life. Oh, and Cam Thomas is quietly the best player in the league.

40+ points in three consecutive games 🔥@24_camthomas, ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/5bKl95poRq

— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) February 8, 2023

On Tuesday night, the Brooklyn Nets lost 116-112 to the Phoenix Suns but that’s not the story of the night. The Nets weren’t supposed to win anyway. Kyrie is examing the grassy knoll right now and Kevin Durant didn’t play. It actually shouldn’t have been a close game but Cam Thomas stepped up to carry the team on his back.

Here’s what Cam Thomas has accomplished in his last 3 games:

44 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists
47 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists
43 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists

The Brooklyn Nets should be in freefall right now. One of their franchise cornerstones was traded for Dorian Finney-Smith, a crypto bro and a 7th grader to be named later. Their other franchise cornerstone demanded a trade in the offseason and has gotten two head coaches fired.

Yet the Nets are still 10 games above .500 and sit in the 5th seed in the East. Thankfully, Brooklyn had Cam Thomas cooking in a test tube somewhere preparing to be unleashed onto the NBA.

At 21 years old, Thomas became the youngest player in NBA history to average 40 points over a 3-game span. This Nets team had Durant, Kyrie and James Harden on the roster at the same time and at no point did any of these guys score 40+ in 3 straight games.

What makes this Cam Thomas explosion interesting is that it could only happen in a modern NBA where coaches allow one player to dominate every single possession over and over again.

I grew up watching Stephon Marbury and Jamal Crawford get buckets for the Knicks in the mid-2000s. They would randomly erupt for a 40 or 50 burger and then immediately go back to their typical scoring averages because they weren’t tasked with nor encouraged to shoot the ball whenever it touched their hands.

Scorers in 2023 have the green light to just hoop. Can you imagine what the world would look like if guys like Mario Hezonja and Michael Beasley were drafted today instead of a decade ago when you used to get benched for chucking up terrible 3’s?

Plus, Cam Thomas is playing next to Kevin Durant—the king of the hoopers—and replacing Kyrie Irving—the prince of the hoopers. Cam Thomas’s legacy is being forged in the fires of hoop Titans. He is the ShamGod that was promised.

The NBA belongs to Cam Thomas and like, Lauri Markkanen now. Just as we all predicted. Don’t be shocked when Thomas breaks LeBron’s all-time scoring record by March.