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Nerlens Noel returns to Mavs

Nerlens Noel knocks back that 4 year $70M contract from Dallas last year, 12 months later signs with OKC for the minimum.

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/07/02/report-nerlens-noel-signing-11-contract-with-thunder/

Ha and the Mavs are 2-13 too.

Nerlens Noel‘s last four games:

Six minutes
DNP-CD
Two minutes
Five minutes

He probably assumed he would get $$$ after Mozgov signed his horribad contract. lol

Yep. He must have been getting his advice from the people on this board that insisted the market for Cs was gonna be crazy good based on nothing more than the absurd contracts handed out to bigs in 2016.

Remember him being mad for not getting drafted higher, kind of shows why Now. Thinks he's better than he is. Until he has a full productive season the league has moved to stretch fours which he ain't and not big enough for the five. Good luck to him and probably will get a bigger contract as unrestricted player, but needs to concentrate on court instead of always feeling hard done by.

17.5m per is a decent offer for anyone coming off rookie scale, let alone someone with a history of injuries like Noel does. Hope it doesn't burn him. He has talent but clearly is listening to the wrong people.

You get what's coming when greed steps in.

Ah OK I didn't know about the first part.

LoveBroker - the ex-agent responded with the truth about the $70mil deal because the new agent and their PR were making it out as if Noel was never offered $70mil via the first agent. So I agree with the ex-agent making it public what really went down, it is his livelihood after all and he did manage to get a big deal for his client who then decided to leave. They tried to spin it as if the first agent was useless which was to cover themselves selfishly.

But the wildcats actually did decline NBA and with good reason

I understand that it may be satisfying for some to see a story of someone being offered so much, risking it, then come back to be offered much less.

But does anyone think its a little unprofessional of Noel's ex-agent to be airing this information? Doesn't lend himself to confidence from current or future players who may engage his services.

Hes a poor mans Deandre Jordan, he won't be getting 4 yrs 70mill again

Yeah, horrible advice. Best-case he gets roughly around the same that was offered to him this offseason. Worst case - well, injuries/crowded market, etc. More than likely he ends up with less than he turned down.

The world is going mad. First the Wildcats claim they rejected the NBA now this. :)

Heard he was offered a qualifying contract by Portland. Is this a guaranteed contract??