On this episode of this league, we dissect the history of one of the worst contract blunders in the NBA history, baby.

Nirlens, Noel, not a name that casual sports fans really think about all that much, but there was a lot of greed that got us to this place.

A lot of bad decisions that got us to this place, and now we have some brand new tea that makes this something that we discuss right here on the episode.

It is a wild fucking story, how it started, how it is, and how it's about to finish, probably going to cost someone their job.

Probably going to cost someone their business, probably going to cost someone almost $100 million,

Marty do me a favor, and drop the fucking beat.

So Dennis Schroeder made a bad decision, but before there was Dennis Schroeder, there was Nirlens Noel.

So for those who don't remember, because there's a lot of people who don't remember, 2017, Nirlens, Noel turned down four years, $70 million from the maps.

He was like, yeah, yeah, I'm a bet on myself. And just like Schroeder, Nirlens, Noel got injured, well, actually, Dennis Schroeder didn't get injured,

but they both lost a lot of money. Nirlens Noel injured his thumb, he sprained his thumb, and then he ended up not getting that deal from the maps,

and then he ended up going from place to place to place on a bunch of minimum deals.

And everybody around, there's a cautionary tale, and everybody around is kind of like, wow, either him or his agent made a massive miscalculation.

Turns out it was actually something much more nefarious. And this is the deal. Rich Paul is a snake. That's what really it is in a nutshell.

Yeah, I mean, this blew my mind. Like I've said, like, for years, like, how did he not, like, sue his agent for malpractice or like what I know we're, like, getting, like, towards, like, what the story turns into.

But the fact that Rich Paul was involved in this just blew this story. Like, this is like my dream.

The my dream too. It's like, it's like nerd tea. Like this is NBA nerd fucking tea. So it's like for us basketball fans, this is, this is it, baby.

This is the onions. This is the curtain. We get a little peak behind the curtain, the dirty ass business that is the NBA.

All right. At this point, for your $70 million gets offered to New Orleans. No, well, he is being represented by my guy, full disclosure, friend of the show, Happy Walters. Happy Walters is like, yo, take that money. Take that money.

Then New Orleans, no, well, of course, the best part of this. New Orleans, no, well, goes to Ben Simmons's birthday party. Yes, yes, goes to Ben Simmons's birthday party. Of course.

And sees Rich Paul and Rich Paul fucking poaches, New Orleans, no, well, tells him to turn that deal down. Why does he tell him to turn it down? Because that money goes to Happy Walters.

Because it's the end of that contract. So you sign deals with agents for a certain period of time. And if you signed a new deal at that point in time, then the entire duration of that deal, the four years, all that commission goes to Happy.

But if you wait next year and your contract expires and you have a new agent, then that new agent gets all the forward commission, not the old agent. So that is why Rich Paul said, hey, homie, bet on yourself. You're a hundred million dollar man.

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