Nerlens Noel has placed the Philadelphia 76ers on the defensive multiple times this season. But rather than cool his public frustration and candor, he has elected to switch agents
What a tangled web you weave, Nerlens Noel! Sore ankle and just the second game from the ten minutes and injury against the Detroit Pistons, and Noel played eight minutes. And curiously, it was that eight minutes which prompted another tirade.
"“I just want to play basketball. I’m not an eight-minute player so I don’t know what that’s about. […] I need to be on the court playing basketball. I think I’m too good to be playing eight minutes. Like, no, that’s crazy. That’s crazy. That’s crazy. They need to figure this s–t out.”-Nerlens Noel interviewed by CSNPhilly.com’s Jessica Camerato following a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers"
While the Philadelphia 76ers are trying to find common ground and sort through trees to find a path in the forest, Noel keeps on spilling venom into the media. It’s a surprising turn of events for the ever devolving controversy. The situation which needed everyone’s buy in found that Noel was all too quick to break ranks.
It’s his contract year. After three seasons of losing, Nerlens Noel wants out.
No. My understanding is this thing comes to a close fairly soon. https://t.co/A2HBLlVudW
— Steve Kyler (@stevekylerNBA) December 19, 2016
He is a suddenly very-outspoken-center Nerlens Noel. He is the Nerlens Noel who is completely focused and busy readying himself for a new NBA contract – somewhere. But the price of getting what you want, or out of what you don’t want, can be very costly.
A young man who, for his entire NBA career so far, has done what was asked of him, has felt the walls closing in. Perhaps that feeling resembles the feeling of being powerless.
If that’s the case, then any action of reestablishing a beachhead of control would be a step worth taking, right?