Cam Thomas will start on the bench again, but sometimes fate intervenes

No one knows better than Cam Thomas on how the fates can intervene. After Summer League last year, where he led the league in scoring and was named co-MVP, Thomas was seen as a development player. At barely 20 years old, he was a precocious scorer but there were a lot of those on the Nets roster. There were some optimists. Kristian Winfield predicted he could average 10 points a game (he averaged 8.5) and might have a 30-point game along the way (that took place against Utah in early February.) It depended on other guards’ availability.

Well, after averaging 39.5 points in two G League games, Thomas became more than a development player. He became a go-to guy with Kyrie Irving unavailable,…