LAS VEGAS — Nerlens Noel calls it “my dog.”
He means a side of his playing personality that comes out when he's at his most intense, his most energetic. The Thunder's newest free-agent acquisition has displayed it during his four seasons in the NBA — even on teams that mostly played dead — but by his own admission, not often enough.
“I definitely want to bring my dog out,” Noel said last week after watching a Thunder Summer League game from a courtside seat. “It's been a while. It comes in spurts, the situations I was in.