Matt Barnes

About

Matthew 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. Barnes is currently a basketball analyst for ESPN as well as NBC Sports California for Sacramento Kings games.

Barnes was born in Santa Clara, California, to an Italian mother and an African American father. He attended Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, where he was a letterman in football and basketball. Barnes earned All-American, All-State, All-CIF, All-City, and All-League honors in each sport.
Barnes played four seasons of college basketball at UCLA, where he was an All-Pacific-10 Honorable Mention selection in 2001.

Barnes was selected with the 46th overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2002 NBA draft, and was immediately traded, along with Nick Anderson, to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Wesley Person. The Cavaliers assigned Barnes for…