Nerlens Noel

Oklahoma City Thunder’s Nerlens Noel was taken off the floor on a stretcher. Noel took an elbow to the face while contesting a dunk attempt from Wiggins midway through the third quarter. His body appeared to go limp afterward, with nothing shielding his head from bouncing off the hardwood as he crashed down. As Noel [...]

Nerlens Noel and Thabo Sefolosha are having seasons to forget—and they’re not getting any better. The NBA suspended both players for five games on Monday for violating its anti-drug policy, according to Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/981207109592285184] Sefolosha played some quality minutes as a small-ball 4 for the Utah Jazz before suffering what was [...]

It doesn’t look like Nerlens Noel is nearing the end of his brief tenure with the Dallas Mavericks. To be sure, the 23-year-old center can leave over the summer, when he enters unrestricted free agency. But he probably isn’t bolting before then. The Mavericks failed to trade him in advance of the NBA’s Thursday deadline, [...]

Nerlens Noel’s situation with the Dallas Mavericks continues to rank among the NBA’s most wild roller coaster rides in recent memory. First he excelled after being shipped to Big D from the Philadelphia 76ers—particularly when slotted alongside Dirk Nowitzki, according to NBA.com. Then, in restricted free agency, the Mavericks offered him life-changing money: roughly $70 [...]

More bad news for Nerlens Noel in a contract year. The Mavericks 23-year-old center who has already fallen out of the regular rotation and is only averaging four points and four rebounds in 12 minutes per game, will now be out of action for four to six weeks after undergoing surgery on his thumb. Here [...]

Many, myself included, thought that the Mavericks acquisition of Nerlens Noel before the 2017 NBA trade deadline was a fantastic move for the Mavericks and that he would instantly become a double-double guy alongside Dirk Nowitzki on a Dallas team that desperately needed his youth, length and rim protection. That hasn’t exactly panned out. Dallas [...]

This is fine. Nerlens Noel, who turned down a four-year, $70 million offer from the Dallas Mavericks in restricted free agency only to sign his one-year qualifying offer worth $4.2 million, will not get to spend his contract season as the starting center. That job, according to head coach Rick Carlisle, belongs to Dirk Nowitzki. [...]

Nerlens Noel has a new agent. Maybe now he’ll get a new contract. The 23-year-old center is finally making moves after spending nearly two months on the restricted free-agent market, opting to hire Rich Paul of Klutch Sports as his new representation, per Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto: [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/899781544025436160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnba%2Fnews%2Freport-nerlens-noel-switches-agents-in-the-midst-of-restricted-free-agency%2F] Noel’s reasoning isn’t quite clear, but [...]

We are about three weeks into free agency and almost all big names are off the board and only one real big trade piece (that everyone is aware of) in Carmelo Anthony is still on the market. That got me thinking about the casualties of the 2017 free agency period from a player perspective and [...]

Many assumed when the Mavericks acquired Nerlens Noel in a trade before the 2017 NBA trade deadline that a quick and easy long-term extension was a mere formality as the Mavericks would pay big money to lock up their center of the future. That has not been the case. We are almost three weeks into [...]