Knicks center Nerlens Noel has filed a lawsuit against his former agent, Rich Paul, claiming $58 million in lost wages.
Claiming that Paul’s negligent treatment led him to miss out on $58 million in salary after he turned down a four-year offer with the Mavs and ended up signing a series of much-smaller contracts.
Things didn’t go as planned from there, though, as Noel missed 42 games in the following season after tearing a ligament in his thumb, during the 2017-18 season and only played 30 games for the Mavericks, with his statistics suffering as a result.
At that point, “Paul began to lose interest in Noel as a client,” the lawsuit says, failing to come up with plans to get him a significant contract.
Fed up with how his career was been handled and having learned that other players represented by Klutch Sports also had also been ignored in favor of the agency’s “marquee” clients, Noel fired Paul in December, the lawsuit says.
With a new agent this offseason, he signed a three-year contract with the Knicks worth about $32 million.
