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My Take
Matt Barnes is the kind of NBA player I always rooted against if he wasn't on my team and loved if he was. Fourteen seasons of pure edge, a 201cm enforcer out of UCLA and Santa Clara who treated every possession like a personal grudge. I find it fitting that he finally grabbed a championship with the 2017 Warriors in his last year, after years of being the agitator nobody wanted to guard. He never had the box-score numbers, but he had the reputation, and I respect how he turned that grit into a long career and a second act as a candid podcaster.
Overview
Matt Kelly Barnes (born March 9, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies and won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in his final season in the league in 2017.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Matt Barnes
- Name (Japanese)
- マット・バーンズ
- Reading
- まっと・ばーんず
- Born
- March 9, 1980 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Monkey
- Origin
- Santa Clara, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 201 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Del Campo High School
- University
- University of California, Los Angeles
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.