News from around the NBA 2025-2026

[Mainstreet]

He's an undersized chucker. Like a less skilled Jordan Poole. I'd rather not take a look. He needs to change his game before he ends up in Asia. He's too me-first in his style to go to Europe.

The Bucks waiving him tells a story.

 

[Phrazbit]

The Bucks waive Cam Thomas.

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He is the definition of the empty stat, team killing, chucker that a lot of fans seem to fawn over because they see some highlights but the dude is an absolute sea anchor.

Doesn't pass, plays zero defense, shoots a TON... also, bad at shooting.

 

[Phrazbit]

Sources: Nets' Cam Thomas picks $6M deal, to be FA in 2026

Restricted free agent Cam Thomas has opted for the qualifying offer with the Nets that gives him a full no-trade clause and sets him for unrestricted free agency next summer with at least 10 teams set to have cap space, sources told ESPN.

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I have a feeling Cam Thomas would like a do-over on this decision. Wouldn't be at all surprised if his NBA days are done.

 

[Phrazbit]

Moody's knee exploded tonight on a non-contact play.

If they're lucky, he just dislocated and his season is over, but it looked gross. Could be a fractured patella, could be a dislocation with a bunch of tears.

 

[Adrian]

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[Adrian]

Rob Murrows
@RobMurrows
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Hearing that Golden State Warriors guard Moses Moody has suffered a patellar tendon tear in his left knee, will miss the remainder of the season.

 

[Adrian]

Fullcourtpass
@Fullcourtpass
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Doc Rivers on why Cam Thomas fell out of favor with the coaching staff in Milwaukee

“There are things that we don’t need to talk about.”

 

[Adrian]

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[Adrian]

Fullcourtpass

@Fullcourtpass
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2h


The NBA voiding Kawhi Leonard contract with the Clippers “is as talked about a thing in the NBA as anything right now”, per @SIChrisMannix “I hear about it every single arena I go to, all the conversations I have with league and team officials, this comes up."

 

[95pro]

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Some superheros are human though.

 

[Russ Smith]

Moody's knee exploded tonight on a non-contact play.

If they're lucky, he just dislocated and his season is over, but it looked gross. Could be a fractured patella, could be a dislocation with a bunch of tears.

Yean look at your own peril it's a horrifying looking injury

We had just driven from oregon to bay area got taco bell sat down turned on game oh it's in OT, during a long break which turned out to be because Moody's knee had just gave out. Missed the last 10 games with a wrist injury, was having a great game and this. Poor guy really hope it's not the patellar tendon

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[Russ Smith]

Rob Murrows
@RobMurrows
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1h
Hearing that Golden State Warriors guard Moses Moody has suffered a patellar tendon tear in his left knee, will miss the remainder of the season.

That's what I was afraid of looked like mine when I did it. Luckily he's half the age I was but the last guy who had one like that in the NBA didn't get back, Andre Roberson. I think he might have eventually played again but it effectively ended his career.

 

[Phrazbit]

That's what I was afraid of looked like mine when I did it. Luckily he's half the age I was but the last guy who had one like that in the NBA didn't get back, Andre Roberson. I think he might have eventually played again but it effectively ended his career.

I locked mine once, stood up from an awkward stance and my knee cap had slipped to the outside of my knee and stayed there. I was probably a couple pounds of pressure from ripping it in half. Hurt like hell and scared the crap out of me.

And I was on the 2nd day of a vacation on France… I cannot imagine what I’d have had to go through of I tore it.

 

[Russ Smith]

I locked mine once, stood up from an awkward stance and my knee cap had slipped to the outside of my knee and stayed there. I was probably a couple pounds of pressure from ripping it in half. Hurt like hell and scared the crap out of me.

And I was on the 2nd day of a vacation on France… I cannot imagine what I’d have had to go through of I tore it.

My surgeon told me she thinks it's the worst knee surgery other than the ones that also have vascular damage.

I slightly tore mine in HS at 15, jumpstop on a break knee bent in. 15 years later I had surgery it was close to torn then. At 51 years old I fully tore it 2 steps from the bottom of a staircase, luckily as it tearing made me fall.

6 weeks in an immobilizer brace, came out with less than 30 degrees range of motion, you need I think 105 to pedal a bike all the way around 110 to do stairs. I got most of that back but I can't fully straighten it. Never got my balance back.

If you watch the video of the injury on the Warriors tv network you can hear Kelenna Azabuike say right away oh no that's his patella tendon, he had the exact same injury same way going up for a dunk and it basically ended his career. Jeremy Lin had one too played one year more after recovery but it basically ended his career

Caron Butler came back from it and Oladipo has but yeah it's not a good one.

 

[Adrian]

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Yahoo Sports

@YahooSports
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10h
Ja Morant will miss the remainder of the season after an injection in his injured left elbow, the team announced.

He is expected to make a full recovery ahead of the 2026-27 season.

 

[Adrian]

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Polymarket Hoops

@PolymarketHoops
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Moses Moody’s knee injury is expected to sideline him until 2028…Prayers up to him

He was having a career year for Golden State, averaging 12.1 PPG, 3.3 RPG on 40% from behind the arc.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

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Polymarket Hoops

@PolymarketHoops
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Moses Moody’s knee injury is expected to sideline him until 2028…Prayers up to him

He was having a career year for Golden State, averaging 12.1 PPG, 3.3 RPG on 40% from behind the arc.

Oh man thats rough.

 

[Adrian]

NBACentral

@TheDunkCentral
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"I'm not ready to say it's not working. It is working... I'm not ready to say because there is a sense of unfairness for one player, that the rule doesn't work."— Adam Silver on the NBA's 65-game rule (h/t
@BrettSiegelNBA
)

 

[Adrian]

Legion Hoops

@LegionHoops
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56m


Adam Silver announces there will be a vote in May to address tanking in the NBA: "We're going to fix it. Full stop."

 

[Hoop Head]

Some commentary is coming out about Cam Thomas being waived. Apparently he was the worst defender in the league amongst players with 40 or more games played.

Cam Thomas is arguably the worst defensive player this season

Recent waived scoring guard Cam Thomas could be considered easily the worst defensive player this season.

www.hoopshype.com

Also in the bottom 10, Sochan. Nick Richards, and Tyus Jones.

 

[Adrian]

Polymarket Hoops

@PolymarketHoops
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1h
INSANE BUT TRUE: DeMar DeRozan is only 1,991 points away from being 10th on the NBA’s all time scoring list

He’s played 72 of 73 games for Sacramento this season.

 

[Adrian]

Keerthika Uthayakumar

@keerthikau
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NBA teams were 0-180 when down by 10 or more points in overtime over the last 29 seasons. They are now 1-180. Wolves came back from down 13 in overtime, the largest OT comeback win in the play-by-play era.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Keerthika Uthayakumar
@keerthikau
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4h


NBA teams were 0-180 when down by 10 or more points in overtime over the last 29 seasons. They are now 1-180. Wolves came back from down 13 in overtime, the largest OT comeback win in the play-by-play era.

Yeah and Houston is now 1-7 in OT games this season. Ouch.

 

[AzStevenCal]

And, even though they won, if I were the Wolves I would refuse to ever suit up again with Scott Foster involved. In fact, if I were an NBA player, I'd refuse to suit up in any game he was involved in. How in the world does this incompetent jerk still have a job?

I watch a lot of basketball and one of my pet peeves is when a ref thinks he's bigger than the game. Foster has been there for more than a decade. The shameful way he handled the OT last night (which led to Houston getting up 13 points) should put an end to his career. But it won't.

 

[Adrian]

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