Up to date Feb. 14: Matt Barnes appeared on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz to reply to the incident that occurred throughout his son’s highschool basketball recreation final week.
Barnes began speaking about how he has all the time yelled on the refs, all through his basketball journey. As a participant, as a coach, and as a mum or dad.
“This particular incident — I will say my one mistake was putting my hand on [the student broadcaster’s] shoulder. A lot of people want to say I grabbed this kid or I did this — I literally put my hand on this kid’s shoulder because it was almost like I was talking to my son,” Barnes said. “He told me to ‘sit my ass down.’ I was just like, ‘Why do you feel comfortable to be able to tell a grown man to sit his ass down? So he and I had a little back and forth, and obviously, admitting my faults to even touch him was wrong of me. But I want to make clear that the narrative of me as some guy that beats up people, I want people to know I didn’t bodyslam this kid, I didn’t chokeslam him, I didn’t do any of the sort. I literally put my hand on his shoulder like I was talking to one of my sons. And again, for touching him, I was wrong. But I just didn’t like the disrespect that came with the entitlement where they felt like they could say anything to me.”
Former NBA participant Matt Barnes allegedly informed a pupil announcer at his son’s highschool basketball recreation that he would “slap the s—t” of the teenager, according to reports.
Matt Barnes, broadly referred to as a “villain” across the Affiliation, was upset a couple of no-call for a foul in opposition to his son throughout a recreation between Harvard-Westlake College and Crespi Carmelite Excessive College.
Barnes had been on the court docket “multiple times” in response to Jake Lancer, the scholar broadcaster. When the 2 made eye contact, the 6-foot-7 former small ahead allegedly put his hands on Lancer and informed him he would “slap the s–t out of you.”
“(Barnes) kind of came up and put his hands on me actually,” stated Lancer on the reside broadcast after coming back from a break.
Different folks on-line stated {that a} pupil had informed Barnes to close up. Lancer later claimed on X/Twitter that’s not what he stated.
Barnes responded to criticism on X/Twitter, telling one consumer to “shut your ass up.
“Don’t let that privileged HW shit go to your head,” he added. “Idgaf who your son is.”
Barnes’ son performs for Crespi, who’s led by former Knicks coach Derek Fisher. Crespi misplaced to Harvard-Westlake, 72-54 who received their fifth-straight Mission League title.
Barnes performed within the NBA for 14 seasons throughout a number of groups. He received the 2017 NBA Championship as a member of the Golden State Warriors. One in all his most notable moments within the recreation got here from pretend throwing the ball at Kobe Bryant’s face, and Bryant didn’t even flinch.
All through his profession, Barnes averaged 8.2 factors, 4.6 rpg, and 1.8 assists in 929 video games.
