Cam Thomas is a top-ten NBA scorer

“You have every chance to be Jordan Clarkson. Or you can be a better-scoring Kyle Lowry. Make your choice.”

Seven games into the season, 22-year-old Brooklyn Net Cam Thomas is a top ten NBA scorer, who's causing disagreements in TrueHoop editorial meetings. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES

Cam Reddish is a Laker. Cam Payne is a Buck. But half of the NBA’s Cams are Brooklyn Nets.

Cam Johnson is 27, 6-8, and a former Suns lottery pick from North Carolina, who has been out a lot lately with a calf injury. Speaking broadly, though: everybody loves Cam Johnson. 

Then there’s Cam Thomas, who’s a bit more a lightning rod. He just turned 22, was drafted at the end of the first round a couple of years ago. He’s listed at 6-4, but looks shorter (and declined to be measured at the pre-draft combine). When he played with Kevin Durant, they razzed each other in public in charming ways. When Cam hit a huge shot, no one was happier than KD. Cam Thomas came to seem a little bit like Durant’s mini-me. 

Last February, when Durant was traded to the Suns, it was the smaller, younger, lower-drafted Cam who turned heads by becoming the youngest player in NBA history to score 40-or-more points three games in a row. When he did that, it started to seem like everyone loved that Cam.

Except me.

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