Nets
Cam Thomas is going to be out multiple weeks. Brooklyn announced he has a left hamstring strain and will be reevaluated in three to four weeks.
He strained the same hamstring four times in the past year and played only 25 games last season because of it.
The injury happened in the first quarter Wednesday against Indiana.
It’s a tough setback for a player who was averaging 24.4 points in seven games.
Thomas took his $6 million qualifying offer this offseason and will be an unrestricted free agent in 2026. He needs games, numbers and health for leverage, and this is the exact injury he did not need.
If he returns in exactly four weeks — optimistic, given the history — he’ll miss 14 games. Terance Mann, Tyrese Martin, Drake Powell and Egor Demin should see opportunities.
Pacers
Indiana made it official — Monte Morris is in, Mac McClung is out.
The Pacers signed Morris and waived McClung after just three appearances. McClung, the three-time dunk champ, averaged 6.3 points in 11 minutes a night.
His non-guaranteed contract leaves Indiana with just a $164,060 cap hit.
The Pacers initially planned to bring in Morris during camp before his calf injury derailed it.
He’s entering his ninth season and is known for protecting possessions, his career assist-to-turnover ratio is 4.9-to-1. Indiana is 1–7 and desperate for steady ballhandling with multiple guards injured.
Richie Adubato
Longtime assistant and former NBA head coach Richie Adubato has passed away at age 87, per Jason Beede of the Orlando Sentinel.
Adubato coached Detroit, New York, Dallas, Cleveland and Orlando across two decades — then coached in the WNBA with the Liberty and Mystics — and later worked as a Magic radio analyst for 15 seasons.
Condolences to his friends and family.
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