When it comes to Barnes, you must think of this classic picture at the first time.
It was the 2009-2010 season. Barnes just finished his career in Phoenix Sun and came to magic.
In a game with the Lakers, Bryant’s tough style made Barnes very upset. He said in the interview: “He has too many small moves, using his arm and elbow, I can also avoid blowing punishment. If I do the same action to him, I will be punished by the referee. This is also a game! It is better to fight.”
Therefore, in a serve round, the classic scene in NBA history was born.
In fact, in Barnes’s wandering career, such “provocation” is a plot often performed. His family, he and his miserable childhood, such a tough guy who “dares to fight” was forged.
Guardian of family
Barnes was born in an American classic “white and black” family. Due to the serious racial discrimination problem in the United States, children like him are neither welcomed by the black community nor accepted by white people. But this is not the worst. The harm brought to him by society is far less than the harm given by his family. His father was a retired soldier, but after his retirement, he embarked on the road of drug trafficking and drug production. Their families gather a large number of gang members, drug dealers and drug addicts every day. In his childhood, little Barnes saw the dark side of the world in such an environment. He was supposed to eat ice cream. In order to protect his family, he took up arms and learned to fight.
That year, he was six years old.
In this way, time came to Barnes’s senior year in chaos. At that time, due to his love for sports and his urgent desire to change his life. Barnes fell in love with sports. Due to his excellent physical quality and continuous efforts, he became a sports celebrity in the school. But what followed was not applause and applause, but the overwhelming discrimination and exclusion of the white people in the school, but Barnes endured it.
Until someone bullied his sister, a white boy called her sister “black” and spit saliva on sister Barnes’s head. This time Barnes finally couldn’t bear it. He found the white boy, used the method he learned to solve problems when he was six years old, raised his fist and beat him, in this disappointing society, he protected his sister in his own way.
However, this incident caused quite a stir in the school and even the local media in California, because as a mixed black and white man, he beat the white man, and the teachers and students in the school began to resist him and crusade against him, don’t go to his game, even throw banana peel on him after his game. At last he received a notice from the headmaster that he was dropped out of school. In response, Barnes said, “I don’t regret it.” After a miserable childhood, this “evil man” just wants to protect his family.
Your Guardian
Although Barnes was a star player in high school and played for 22.6 minutes on average in college, scoring 8.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and an excellent data of stealing once, but when “talent flies everywhere”, after everyone could touch the sky in NBA, he had to accept the fact that his talent was flat.
Since being selected by the grizzly bear in the 46th round in 2002, he was treated as a knight without a match, and then he was cut off. Seattle SuperSonics gave him a chance in September, but maybe he didn’t hold the chance, or the team didn’t like him. In short, he was laid off in less than a month.
After a long time, the Clippers found him who was unemployed at home and gave him a contract to return to the NBA. Barnes, who didn’t want to leave, cherished this opportunity, he averaged 19 minutes, scoring 4.5 points, 4 rebounds and 1.3 assists. Although the Clippers did not leave him after the end of the season, with this performance opportunity, he could find a job in NBA. After passing through 76 people in King Knicks, in 2006, under the encouragement of old Nelson, Barnes, who once wanted to give up basketball, joined the Golden State Warriors with a basic salary of a contract.
That was in 2006, the Warriors had no splash and Dream Green, no big market and high exposure rate, but they had saint of war excellent players such as Jackson, bearded Davis, Dunk King Richardson, as well as facing difficulties, the “workaholic” spirit that will shine when meeting enemies.
Therefore, when they met 67 wins in the regular season and ranked first in the western region in the first round of the playoffs, they showed their swords and cut off the Mavericks in 6 games, completed the shocking black eight miracle. And Barnes also found his own way of playing, active and fierce defense, and scored three points in those damn seats. Originally, he was not superb in shooting. He averaged 9.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1 steals in the 06-07 season. In addition, he scored 107 three points and hit 36.6 points in the season, which is the best performance in his career so far. Barnes himself said bluntly: “If he fails to win the Championship, this will be the most wonderful time in my career.”
After finishing this wonderful journey between himself and the Warriors, Barnes made many rounds. Finally, in 2017, Barnes, who was already a veteran, returned to the place that made him unforgettable-Golden State Warriors, and won the championship with the team in the 16-17 season.
From being chosen, no one cared about it, to playing his own style and characteristics to gain a firm foothold in NBA, Barnes guarded himself with his tough and unyielding character and hard work.
Guardian of teammates
Due to the historical and cultural tradition, “dog” mostly expresses the meaning of flattery, tendency and insidious in the context of Chinese, but in the English world, the meaning of dog is completely opposite, dogs represent guard and loyalty in English, and many people compare themselves with dogs.
Barnes once called himself a dog.
Barnes said in an interview: “I regard the team as my own home and I am protector. I have always been like this. When I play with the Stars, when my opponents bully them, I will stand up, I need those guys to win, and I want to protect them.”
That’s what I said, and Barnes did the same.
In a rocket match against The Sun in 2008, Barnes knocked down Alstom, who wanted to cover for McGrady, and triggered a scuffle of more than a dozen people. Barnes was sent off, finally, he was banned by the league for two games.
In 2011, in a match between the Mavericks and the Lakers at that time, Terry pulled Blake from the air fiercely in a defense, and Blake fell to the ground severely. Seeing his teammates hurt, Barnes of the Lakers rushed forward directly to beat Terry and was finally sent off the court.
In 2013, Griffin and Ibaka, who took the place under the basket, fought in a match between the Clippers and Thunder. They pushed and shoved together, on the side, Barnes saw his team’s star bullied, and stepped forward to push Ibaka out for Griffin. In the interview after the match, Barnes said bluntly that he (ibaca) might think he is the strongest person on Earth, but I don’t care. We can fight directly on the court or make an appointment after the game. I don’t care about these, but he just can’t push my teammates like this.” At that time, Jordan, who was in the same team with him, commented on him like this, “as an opponent, I used to hate him. Now as a teammate, I love him so much! Perhaps, this sentence is the most real feeling for many players who have been teammates or opponents with Barnes.
As a fan, you can say that Barnes is a wicked man, a villain, a fighter or a real villain. But in my opinion, maybe Barnes is just a “guardian” who is unwilling to let his family and friends be hurt again after experiencing the miserable experience of childhood “.