So right now, it’s been just getting my body all the way where it needs to be with strength, weights and conditioning. “In hindsight, when I signed with Memphis, I think I was only at about 50 percent. “I’m in San Antonio training and just the biggest thing right now for me has just been conditioning and strength, just getting back to 100 percent. “Physically, I’m doing fine now,” Thomas said.
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He’s feeling significantly better than he did during his time in Memphis, and he’s looking forward to showcasing what he can do now that he’s much closer to full strength. Thomas has been working out with a trainer in San Antonio and getting ready for the 2015-16 campaign. That’s why he has been working hard this summer to get in even better physical shape and prepare his body for an 82-game season. Last year was the first step in his comeback, but he’s not satisfied. Now, after getting a small taste of life back in the NBA last season, he wants more. It let me know that I still have something left in the tank to be able to get close to where I wanted to be that quickly.” I had only been working out maybe nine or 10 weeks before I got that stint in Memphis, so that was good for me mentally. “My stint in Memphis was good,” Thomas told Basketball Insiders. Thomas played in just two games (and only received limited minutes) with the Grizzlies before returning to the D-League, but the forward says the time in Memphis was great for his confidence since it was his first NBA action since the 2012-13 season. This was enough to impress the Memphis Grizzlies, who signed Thomas to a 10-day contract in January. He appeared in two games and averaged 14.5 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in just 26.9 minutes, while shooting 58.8 percent from the field. The then-seven-year NBA veteran, with career averages of 7.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks, decided to suit up in the D-League with the Iowa Energy. Well, Thomas did everything in his power to get back on an NBA team and achieved his goal less than three months after that interview, even though he was still in the process of getting in game shape. “I can’t let this opportunity slip away.” “Everyone isn’t given second chances, and I have a legitimate second chance,” Thomas told me last October. He spent months recovering from the procedure and when he was able to get back on the court to start training, he spoke about how he was determined to resume his career and change how he’s perceived around the NBA. Nearly losing the game he loves really affected Thomas. Thomas had the potentially career-ending surgery in March of 2014, and he was terrified that his playing days could be over at just 27 years old.
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He developed the injury during his time with Charlotte, but didn’t discover what it was until after he was amnestied. Last October, Tyrus Thomas opened up to Basketball Insiders about attempting an NBA comeback after recovering from surgery for a C6-7 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for an arachnoid cyst.