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Twitter reacts to Nerlens Noel returning to the Mavericks on the qualifying offer

There’s a mix of relief, anger and head scratching.

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Good news: Nerlens Noel is officially coming back to the Dallas Mavericks.

Bad news: It might not be for beyond 2018.

The restricted free agent big man signed a one-year, $4.1 million qualifying offer to return to Dallas, as reported by ESPN on Saturday. Noel, who turned down a four-year deal worth $70 million from the Mavericks on July 1, is banking on himself for a big payday next summer.

It had been 56 days since the start of free agency, and the Twitterverse was quick to react to the end of this saga, for now.

This is a power play move by Noel, and we have to use all of this season hearing about it. This will not be fun. It will be agonizing.

I am here for contract-year Nerlens Noel, and the world may burn in the process. God help us all, and may the Force be with us.