Isaiah Thomas has been dealing with a hip injury since Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals in 2017, but he took to Twitter on Wednesday to say that he is officially pain-free.

https://twitter.com/isaiahthomas/status/996790171281444864

He dealt with the injury all offseason, and also missed the first 36 games of the year with the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James and Thomas had their fallout, and he was ultimately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. He ended up playing 17 games with the Lakers, making one start before he decided to undergo another surgery on the hip on March 28.

Now that he is officially pain-free, that is a good sign for the former second-round pick of the Sacramento Kings, as he is an unrestricted free agent this summer.

For some NBA execs there was still concern about the injury in April, and they thought it might hurt his free agent demand.

“It’s a red flag that he did not have surgery on it,” one general manager told Sporting News. “If you have a problem that can be fixed heading into your free-agent year, you get surgery. If there is concern that you can’t fix it with surgery, that means probably there is something more wrong. It is something that, obviously, the doctors will look at closely.”

The NBA exec also said that any contract over a year, would be a big risk taken on by the organization.

“Just given the way he played last year,” another NBA executive said, “I think you can’t go more than one year on him. Maybe you can do two years if you hold the second year at your option. That’s before you even get into whether he is healthy.”