Matt Barnes

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.

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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)

Origin

Santa Clara, California, United States

Height

201 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

High school

Del Campo High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Barnes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555396

Tags

• California
• basketball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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