When you have all the cards, you don’t bid against yourself.
That is in essence the Brooklyn Nets strategy for the remainder of free agency, particularly in the case of Cam Thomas, the team’s big free agent, as Jake Fischer reported Thursday on The Steinline, Marc Stein’s substack.
More than two weeks into free agency, many executives and agents around the league are still openly wondering: What is Brooklyn doing with its cap space?
Fischer first eliminates one rumored possibility, a back-to-the future move: tendering offer sheets to any of the league’s big restricted free agents, as they did back in Sean Marks first rebuild.