Nerlens Noel to pay Klutch Sports' Rich Paul full commission on 2020 deal to settle legal dispute, per report
Nerlens Noel, Rich Paul and the Klutch Sports Group have agreed to settle their ongoing legal dispute , according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. Noel will now pay Paul his full commission on the $5 million salary he earned with the New York Knicks during the 2020-21 season and withdraw all pending legal proceedings related to the case, according to Charania. The saga began all the way back in 2017. Noel was a member of the Dallas Mavericks at the time, and agent Happy Walters negotiated a four-year, $70 million offer for Noel to remain in Texas. Noel, acting on the advice of Paul, rejected that offer and took the one-year $4.1 million qualifying offer from Dallas hoping it would allow him to cash in on a bigger deal, with Paul as his agent, as an unrestricted free agent in 2018. Obviously, that didn't happen. Noel had a tumultuous season in Dallas and only managed to secure a $3.75 million deal wit...