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Matt Barnes: "I feel like Steph is not going nowhere. I think Steph is going to be on that Kobe, ride the ship till it sinks type situation, extension where he took less money to hopefully give the team some flexibility. I like Yaxel, killer, big kid, not afraid of the moment, a shit talker. One of those kids that stayed in college, I think he is 23 or 24 now as a rookie, so he is ready to go."
Matt Barnes on the fallout from his incident with Kobe Bryant: "I got death threats, hate mail, you can't come to LA, we going to kill you. All kinds of crazy sh*t. He called me in that off-season and told me, anyone crazy enough to fuck with me is crazy enough to play with me. And I became a Laker that following season. But it was almost like, okay, I may not be a bad person off the court, but I'm almost a villain on the court. Let me embrace that. So I embraced that villain role like halfway through my career."
Riley expects his arrival at Chase Center to be far more sweet than bitter. Stephen Jackson, Matt Barnes, and Chris Mullin will be among the former players and staffers in attendance to honor Nelson, who coached the Warriors from 1988 to 1995 and from 2006 to 2010. Golden State players will wear a “Nellie” memorial jersey patch on their jerseys this season. Riley, who holds no ill will toward his former franchise, anticipates a beautiful night. “The sadness part of losing Nellie has begun to dwindle, which is typical,” Riley said. “That’s what normally happens. So I think more upbeat than sadness. The way Nellie lived, he would want it that way. He wouldn’t want people moping around full of sadness. Nellie knew how to celebrate. And this is going to be a celebration. I see it more as a celebration than anything else.”
The offseason has been a near overhaul for the Lakers’ roster, and former NBA player Matt Barnes is having fun analyzing it. In a video with TMZ Sports, Barnes called out the team’s roster and said it’s the “whitest Laker team since the Minneapolis Lakers.”
“They actually stole money. Thousands — hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your favorite podcast, people you see on different podcasts,” Davis added. “Matt Barnes, Stephen Jack; all those people were investigated. Gilbert Arenas, Corey Maggette, Cutino Mobley; thousands of NBA players were investigated. They just let some of them go to jail. Some of them, the fed got, like, Tony Allen. He didn't go to jail. Whatever he did to get free.”
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Speaking exclusively with the California Post, Barnes, now the co-host of the popular “All the Smoke” podcast, weighed in on the growing controversy surrounding former professional athletes finding legal avenues back into college sports. “Outside of even NIL and the portal, I just don’t like 25-, 26- and 27-year-olds playing with teenagers. You know what I mean?” Barnes said. “I think college is supposed to be a pit stop for development and, obviously, getting your education, but also a pit stop for guys who are good enough to go to the next level. “So I think there needs to be a hard cap on age. The transfer portal is crazy.”
Speaking exclusively with the California Post, Matt Barnes, now the co-host of the popular “All the Smoke” podcast, weighed in on the growing controversy surrounding former professional athletes finding legal avenues back into college sports. “Outside of even NIL and the portal, I just don’t like 25-, 26- and 27-year-olds playing with teenagers. You know what I mean?” Barnes said. “I think college is supposed to be a pit stop for development and, obviously, getting your education, but also a pit stop for guys who are good enough to go to the next level.
This was the second marriage for both Derek and Gloria. Gloria was previously married to former NBA star Matt Barnes, with whom she shares twin sons, while Derek was previously married to Candace Fisher. Derek and Candace share four children together.
Tony Allen: Y'all was working in a in a real hectic environment during that time. It went viral with the Donald Sterling sh*t. Was that kind of hard to deal with? Matt Barnes: To me it didn't matter, TA, because I faced real racism in my life. In my senior year of high school like this dude was [expletive] with my sister and calling her a [n-word] this and spit on her and everything. She was a soft motherf*cker. I had to whoop this dude. And when I got suspended, this is in probably a couple months before I went to UCLA. I got suspended for a week, like midweek when I'm suspended, the KKK comes and like burns crosses and hangs mannequins in the tree like [n-word] die and swastikas everywhere. So I’ve seen like real hateful sh*t. So to hear like a owner talking about black people this and black people that, like I didn't give a [expletive] about what that old senile [expletive] had to say, but obviously the rest of the world did.
NBA Courtside: Matt Barnes on when he fake threw the ball in Kobe Bryant face in the finals: “The Orlando sh*t I told him in our last interview like bro I was ready to fu*king like I was ready to go, like fu*k basketball. Was ready to throw that ball in your face. Because he gets like he’s already so good but then he’ll elbow you and grab you and I remember I caught a dunk tip off the rim because he was guarding me and he tried to block Dwight shot and it fell of perfect and I put that b***h down and that motherfu*kers elbowing me from like my waist to my chest to like my chin and the ref was right here and didn’t say nothing. I was ready to go. He had already elbowed me in my sternum and knocked the wind out of me that game. It was just who he was, you know what I mean? And it was after the game and be you good, it was that line of respect.” (Via @OutTheMudTL)
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NBA Courtside: Matt Barnes on his relationship with Kobe Bryant: “I remember when the Drake and Rick Ross song came out Stay Schemin' and you wasn’t with me shooting in the gym. I remember when that sh*t came out and how made he was about that was crazy and I’m going kind to leave that where that was. But then I also remember another time where we just having a good time. We were in Phoenix on the bus about to get on the plane and we were joking talking sh*t because I came here off the rip just talking sh*t you know I mean I talk sh*t, I’m talking sh*t to Kobe and he’s talking it back. So it kind of changes the whole mood. But one day I was literally like bro how come you don’t show the rest of the world this side of you? And he like thought for second. He’s like, “MB, I can’t show these motherfu*kers that,” you know, I mean, because he always showed the rest of the world the Mamba. Like, I got to know Kobe, you know what I mean? And the person and the businessman and the Father, how much he loved my kids and just the man behind the mask and that’s what I treasure most about our friendship” (Via @OutTheMudTL)
Matt Barnes: I lost my mom to cancer. He was diagnosed November 1st, 2007, died November 27th. So within 26 days, I lost my best friend. And you know, after and it right at the beginning of the season after the that 2008 season. I just tried to wanted to find a way to give back. So she died from four cancers all in stage four. So cancer was the avenue I went down. And throughout my journey, we provided scholarship funds. We provided, aid for people who needed help cuz most of the time, if you don't have insurance or even if you do have insurance, man, cancer treatment will wipe your bank account out. So, we were able to help people pay for bills and do things like that.
Matt Barnes: I had a little cameo on ‘Think Like a Man' and ‘Ninja Turtles’, but I didn't really have no talking parts. But what I learned is she got me an acting coach and she's like, "Listen, like lose yourself into the character and try to relate parts to your life and that's how you kind of come all through with authentic, you feel authentic." So, I took that sh*t serious, because with social media, they be talking sh*t and trying to clown. So, I already had to be a detective. So, I at least had to be a cool detective. So I really worked on that and had acting class once a week… Zach Randolph: Fair to say, we’re going to see some more acting roles. Barnes: You might.
Matt Barnes: "It started in San Jose. I'm Italian and Black. I was in San Jose until about eight or nine. My dad was in the streets to make ends meet. He was a butcher by day, sold drugs by night. My dad used to get dressed in all black and hit the streets, so my little brother, who is four years younger than me, for the longest time thought my dad was a ninja. Dad's going out to fight crime in the middle of the night."