Cam Thomas and the Nets will be seeking win No. 1 in Brooklyn this season when they host the Los Angeles Clippers Wednesday night. AP Photo by Rex Arbogast
Though he ranks a surprising seventh on the list of the NBA’s top scorers thus far this season, Cam Thomas isn’t interested in anything except helping the Brooklyn Nets win their first home game of the year.
The 6-foot-3 shooting guard and his teammates will be out do just that Wednesday night at Downtown’s Barclays Center when they host newly acquired James Harden and the Los Angeles Clippers.
“Flush this, and move onto Wednesday,” Thomas lamented Monday night after pouring in a season-high 45 points in a 129-125 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush.
Fresh off his fifth career game of at least 40 points, Thomas misfired on a pair of long-range jumpers in the final minute of play as Brooklyn fell to 0-3 at home this season.
The Nets have lost four of Thomas’ 40-plus-point contests, including a 134-105 defeat to Harden’s former team, the Philadelphia 76ers, in last year’s regular-season finale here.
Though “The Beard” sat out that game, he helped the Sixers sweep through the Nets in the opening round of the playoffs.
He refused to suit up for Philadelphia this season, however, and found himself in a Clippers uniform last week after finally receiving the trade he had sought since the summer.
An enigmatic presence here in Brooklyn, Harden helped the Nets reach the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2021 after arriving in a trade-deadline deal from Houston that February.
He grew disillusioned the following campaign and forced a swap between the Nets and Sixers that landed him in the City of Brotherly Love, leaving behind Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and our borough.
Now, Harden finds himself playing alongside a…
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