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Paul Davis: NBA veteran Harrison Barnes just bought a small Iowa bank — putting in $25M of his own money. We discussed why he did it, his "Dream Team" board, and what 14 years in NBA locker rooms taught him about banking. Full Q&A in Monday's Bank Slate.
Bob Myers: "When the Warriors were in 14, Jermaine was on the team. Jermaine O'Neal who I worked with too. And Jermaine was like year 16, 17. He came back for that year, because I asked him, I said, we need some leadership. Because that's, that's not enough, there's not enough of that either, by the way, in the NBA. They ran them out. Yeah, it's, it's very hard to find leadership at any level. So I thought our team needed, and Jermaine is a very, very good leader, I think. And so he came to the team, we lost the Clippers in seven games, and he was banged up trying to play, his wrist was jacked. We lose in seven games, and I'm looking at the team going, well, Steph's looking like he could be something, Klay, Harrison Barnes, some of our young guys. Draymond played in that series. And Jermaine calls me three days after we lost, and I'm thinking he's going to tell me he's retired and whatever. He goes, hey man, listen to me, do not break this team up. And I was kind of like, what's so great about this team? We just lost in the first round. And he goes, I've been in a lot of locker rooms at the end of a season, and this team knows how to lose. He said it bothered them the right amount."
Maxime Aubin: Victor Wembanyama has been training with a pro rugby team in the south of France this week, according to @RugbyramaFR. “To everyone’s surprise, the Frenchman took part in several drills during on-field training sessions, but also fully immersed himself alongside the Provence Rugby group, sharing the players’ day-to-day life.” Harrison Barnes is also part of it.
Wembanyama went off to France after the NBA Finals, signing his contract extension there as he began his offseason training. He then returned to Texas and participated in workouts at Fox’s home gym, with Harris and Barnes included. Wembanyama also spent more time working with Hakeem Olajuwon, who helped him build out his post game last summer.
The team posted a photo to social media of Wembanyama with seven of his teammates from his gym in nearby suburb Nanterre, France: Carter Bryant, De’Aaron Fox, Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle, Harrison Barnes, Jordan McLaughlin and free-agent signing Tobias Harris. The significant contingent, which comprises the majority of the Spurs’ projected playing rotation, is expected to spend around a week working out together at the home of Wembanyama’s former club Nanterre 92, of which he now owns a piece. Center Kelly Olynyk, who was with the Spurs last season but is currently a free agent, is also attending the workout.
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Seven of Victor Wembanyama's teammates, including recently signed free agent forward Tobias Harris, have joined the 22-year-old superstar for workouts this week in France. The Spurs on Tuesday posted a photo on their official X account of Wembanyama alongside Harris and six players who helped the Spurs win the 2025 Western Conference championship: Harrison Barnes, Carter Bryant, Stephon Castle, De'Aaron Fox, Dylan Harper and Jordan McLaughlin.
"They want to grow," Spurs CEO R.C. Buford said last week when he revealed on the YouTube show TRASH TALK that "eight or ten" players were expected to join Wembanyama in France for workouts. Buford said Wembanyama organizing the practices underscores his leadership skills. "Just seeing Victor calling his team and saying, 'Hey, come over here and spend a week with me' (shows his leadership)," Buford said.
Shams Charania: Free agent forward Harrison Barnes intends to sign a one-year, $8 million deal to stay with the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell ESPN. The Spurs valued Barnes' leadership and production as he enters a third season in San Antonio, finalizing a new deal with agent Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management on Monday night.
Brooklyn keeps coming up as a likely suitor, too, for the Lakers' Rui Hachimura, league sources say. The Nets and Spurs are two teams we've heard have interest in adding Hachimura's services, while the Spurs are also faced with resolving Harrison Barnes' future as the veteran forward heads to unrestricted free agency.
Carmelo Anthony: I think De'Aaron Fox as a young veteran, somebody who's been around this game for a while should understand that the pace of the game, understand the momentum of the game, which is why he's there, right? He's there to control the game, make big shots. He's a closer, too. This is what he does. These shots are shots that De'Aaron Fox usually take and make. So, when you have the trust factor is so high in San Antonio that Mitch trusts is De'Aaron Fox to go out there and win him basketball games and be successful in certain moments. Now, it comes a point now where you have to say "What's my end game adjustment right now?" And you have to put Dylan Harper in there a lot faster in that run. Take that away. I’m a Harrison Barnes guy.
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Kendrick Perkins: "I voted for Mitch Johnson for coach of the year. I thought he did an outstanding job in the regular season, even throughout the course of the playoffs. The number one thing was his substitution pattern was horrible throughout the Finals. I go back to Game 3, why was Dylan Harper on the bench in and out of the lineup so much in that fourth quarter when they had that collapse? I mean in Game 4, he was 21 points, eight for 12 from the field, plus 12 on the stat sheet, and I just didn't understand. They had no answer for that young man, he should have been in the game. One could say Victor Wembanyama played too many extended minutes at times, that comes on coaching. Big Shot, you just highlighted earlier in the show about Harrison Barnes and not really getting quality minutes there. I thought on the defensive side of the basketball, he could have done a better job. Once you see Jalen Brunson, Jalen Brunson had too many spurts where he was just busting their ass. At some point when you see that this motherf*cker got it going, somebody got to beat him. I'm trapping him until he gives up the ball and he's not getting it back. If they do make a play and make a shot, you got to show me that you can do it again."
"I think you have to look at it for the season it's been," veteran forward Harrison Barnes told Yahoo Sports. "The pain of losing in the Finals, and ultimately you have to accept that. There's no guarantee that this group will ever have the opportunity to achieve that. Some players in this room may be able to get back to the Finals, some players in this room may be able to win a championship. I think accepting what this moment has been, where we come to as a team, and hopefully as guys continue on in their careers — whether it's five, 10, 15 years — they'll use this as a reference point."
“I don’t think I’ve seen a player at his age handle the platform and pressure that he’s been able to, with the grace that he’s been able to,” said veteran Spurs forward Harrison Barnes, who won a ring with Curry in Golden State in 2015 and played alongside Dirk Nowitzki in Dallas. “He feels very natural in those moments,” Barnes said. “I think, coming into (Monday) night, in 14 years, that was one of the craziest atmospheres I’ve seen for a playoff game. Especially a finals game. I feel like he was extremely comfortable in that moment, just to embrace that and be who he was.”
