American professional basketball player Harrison Bryce Jordan Barnes now suits up for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. Barnes made both the All-ACC first team and the All-America second team in 2012. Barnes has spent his entire NBA career with the Golden State Warriors, who selected him seventh overall in the 2012 NBA Draft. He was named to the NBA’s Rookie First Team in 2013, and he led the Warriors to the Western Conference title in 2015.
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How Old Is Harrison Barnes?
In May of 1992, Harrison Barnes entered this world in Ames, Iowa. He’s 30 years old now. A 6’8″ small forward, he led Ames High School to two consecutive 4A state titles in 2010 and was awarded Mr. Basketball USA and a McDonald’s All-American Game Co-MVP that year. Barnes received numerous accolades throughout his college basketball career at North Carolina, including ACC Rookie of the Year, All-ACC Freshman Team, and Second-team All-ACC.
Sacramento Kings Star Harrison Barnes Moves Back To The Bay Area
The 2015 NBA championship banner for the Golden State Warriors proudly displays Harrison Barnes’ name and number. Barnes, a starter on that Warriors championship team, says that the Warriors’ relatively new facility in San Francisco feels like any other NBA arena other than that banner.
Although he is currently a forward with the Sacramento Kings, he has many fond memories of playing for the Warriors and winning a championship at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
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Barnes told Andscape, “I love Oracle,” following the Kings’ 114-106 victory in Game 2 of their first-round series on Monday. “I feel some type of way about the Warriors being in San Francisco already. Obviously, those fans [in San Francisco] are great. It’s a special place when you look up and see that banner. A lot of great memories.”
“The fans at Oracle Arena were genuine people. I lived in Oakland. I got a lot of love for ‘The Town.’ There was a lot of great fans that really just locked in. It’s a similar just in terms of people just wanting to cheer for a winner. Those people rode for you. Died for you.”
During his time with the Warriors, Barnes, the seventh overall choice in the 2012 NBA draft, averaged 10.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 307 regular season games and 64 postseason games. Barnes was a key member of the Warriors’ young core that also included Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andre Iguodala.
Barnes is a seasoned veteran on a youthful Kings squad aiming to unseat the current NBA champs. On Thursday night at Chase Center, the third-seeded Kings will look to extend their series lead against the sixth-seeded Warriors to 3-0.
Barnes, making his first postseason appearance since his days with the Warriors, is eager to create new memories with the Sacramento Kings.
“Anytime you’ve been able to achieve something as a group you remember that,” Barnes said. “Even when you look up in Sac and see those division titles, they are something. It’s not a championship title, but it’s a group coming together and that is what we’re trying to build here.”
“Going to the playoffs is not something that is a given. I did that early in my career and I thought it would just happen again eventually. There was a long time I didn’t go. I’m just trying to stress to our guys to be grateful and be present.” You can see the tweet below with regard to Harrison Barnes.
https://twitter.com/Trysta_Krick/status/1649405731861397510
Although Barnes did win an NBA title with the Warriors, his stint with the team was not particularly memorable.
Barnes shot just 38.5% from the field in the 2016 NBA Playoffs and 35.2 from the field in the 2016 NBA Finals, leading to an overall playoff average of nine points. Warriors supporters were seeking for someone to blame after the club blew a 3-1 lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 Finals, and Barnes became that person.
“He is forever a champion with what he did for us and with us,” Curry told Andscape about Barnes. “In 2015, it was a moment in time in which he made his presence felt in terms of a player and high character person. He gets a lot of mixed love in terms of how it ended and the 2016 [Finals] series and then him getting his bag in Dallas. But he is still doing amazing things because he is a solid pro. He handles everything the right way. He’s a true professional and it was the same way when he was here with us.”
“He is still playing at a high level and obviously he’s got more of a leadership role with the Kings in terms helping the young guys figuring it out.”
Barnes was projected to be waived during the 2016 summer as the Warriors pursued Dwight Howard, Kevin Love, and Kevin Durant. The Warriors’ sales pitch to Durant took place in the Hamptons on June 30 and included Curry, Thompson, Green, head coach Steve Kerr, general manager Bob Myers, and co-owner Joe Lacob. Perhaps Barnes’s exclusion was a sign of things to come.
On July 4, 2016, Durant surprised the NBA world by announcing he was leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors as a free agent, agreeing to a two-year deal worth $54.3 million. In order to create way for Durant, the Warriors had to renounce Barnes’ rights, making him a free agent.
In that issue of the San Jose Mercury News, Barnes declared, “I guess I died.” He signed a four-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks for $94 million, and then he joined Durant, Green, and Thompson on USA Basketball’s 2016 team for the Rio de Janeiro Games. Take a look at the official tweet by Bleacher Report below.
HARRISON BARNES ON HIS FORMER TEAM 😳 pic.twitter.com/5UUt6oFBIp
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 18, 2023
Barnes said, “Coming into this series, there is a time to think and a time to be present. Thinking back, I’ve never been in a playoff series that the Warriors weren’t involved. … The retrospective will take place after the series. But right now, it’s about staying focused and making sure as a group we are locked in.”
During the 2018–19 season, barnes was averaging 17.6 points per game with the Mavericks until being dealt in a multi-team deal to the rebuilding Kings on February 6, 2019. In the summer of 2019, he declined a player option worth $25 million and instead signed a four-year, $85 million contract with Sacramento.
Barnes has averaged 15.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 2.3 assists in 317 regular-season games for the Kings, which is more than he ever played for the Warriors. The 11-year NBA veteran appears to have settled in well to his new home in Sacramento. His wife is originally from the Bay Area. Barnes, however, will also be a free agent this summer after having his agent, Jeff Schwartz, in attendance during Game 2.
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