Nerlens Noel believes he will soon ready to return from his minor knee surgery.

Brown re-joined the Philadelphia 76ers over the weekend.

"As of right now, I'm still feeling it out myself, probably around a couple of weeks," Noel said Monday. "I think I'm in a good place right now to start building back into game shape."

Brett Brown doesn't want to rush things. Brown thinks it will be more like a few weeks.

"I think realistically he hasn't done anything," Brown said. "To think that he's going to come back and play NBA basketball, to me, any sooner than that is a little bit far-reaching."

Brown said it would be very hard to get Noel minutes. He noted that the Sixers have Joel Embiid, Jahlil Okafor, Richaun Holmes, and Noel as centers all battling for playing time.

"It's going to be hard," he said. "You can talk about playing two of those guys together to free things up."