MINNEAPOLIS – Nerlens Noel will be making his debut with the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night when they host the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Mavs are just hoping Noel’s time with Dallas winds up the way the career of another of the team’s former center ended.
As the Mavs were revealing details of why they decided to trade for Noel, the name Tyson Chandler kept popping up. That’s the same Tyson Chandler who the Mavs traded for in the summer of 2010 to backup Brendan Haywood, but he wound up being the team’s quintessential starter and helped lead them to the 2011 NBA title.