Matt Barnes Net Worth: How Rich is the Basketball Player Actually?

Matt Barnes is a retired basketball player from the United States of America. Barnes has 14 years of NBA experience. He was a member of the Golden State Warriors when they won the NBA Championship in his last season. Matt Barnes has a net worth of $13 million as of 2022.

Matt is a co-host of the podcast All the Smoke right now. Former basketball player Kwame Brown and he had a verbal spat. Barnes would want Brown to appear on his program and speak with him in person.

Full Name	Matt Barnes
Birth Date	March 9, 1980
Birth Place	Santa Clara, California, U. S.
Profession	Basketball Player
Ex-wife	Gloria Govan
Net Worth	$13 million

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Early Life

On March 9, 1980, Matt Barnes was born in the United States in Santa Clara. His father is black, while his mother is white. He enrolled in Campo High School for his studies, where he was a standout football and basketball player. He went on to the University of California, Los Angeles, to further his education (UCLA). Matt played collegiate basketball there for four seasons.

Matt Barnes Net Worth & Career

The Memphis Grizzlies selected Barnes in the 2002 NBA Draft. He wasn’t with the squad for long, as he was moved to the Cleveland Cavaliers shortly after. Long Beach Jam, a new team, signed him in 2003. He fought for the American Basketball Association (ABA) Championship with the new squad, and he finally won by 24 points.

Matt performance in the championship pleased him so much that he was offered a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, a newly formed professional basketball club, for the second half of the 2003-04 season. In October of 2004, he was re-signed by the Sacramento Kings. He scored 17 points and grabbed 9 rebounds in his debut game with the Kings. Matt was signed to a free-agent deal by the New York Knicks in October 2005. He joined the Philadelphia 76ers after playing six games with the franchise.

In 2006, Matt joined the Golden State Warriors, which were a new club at the time. When Mike Dunleavy, Jr., the team’s forward, was benched, he had an opportunity to exhibit his skills on the field. Barnes hit 7 three-point three-goals, a Warriors club record. From 3 points per game to 9.8 points per game, his offense has dramatically improved. For Philadelphia, he appeared in a total of 76 games.

Matt Barnes Fame

Barnes spent a year with the Phoenix Suns, serving a two-game ban during that time. He then spent the next two years with the Orlando Magic. From 2010 to 2012, he spent two years with the Los Angeles Lakers. In September of 2012, Barnes returned to the Los Angeles Clippers. In the summer of 2013, he was named Defensive Player of the Year. On June 25, 2015, Barnes made his return to the Memphis Grizzlies.

On July 9, 2016, Barnes agreed to join the Sacramento Kings. Also on February 20, 2017, he departed the club, and on March 2, 2017, he joined the Golden State Warriors. In the 2017 NBA Championship, the Warriors triumphed in the NBA Finals. After 16 years and 14 seasons in the NBA, Barnes finally won his first championship ring. On December 11, 2017, Barnes announced his retirement from the NBA in an Instagram post.

Personal Life

Gloria Govan, a reality celebrity, was Matt Barnes’s first wife. In 2012, they married and then split up after two years. Carter and Isaiah are the twins of the couple. Anansa Sims, a plus-size model, is the current girlfriend of Matt. Following their breakup in 2020, the pair reunited again in March 2021.

Barnes is now engaged in a heated Twitter debate with Kwame Brown, in which he is requesting Brown’s participation on his podcast. “The only joke you had is about basketball, I got a joke about your life, you punk bitch,” Brown had said about him. He was reminiscing about his last altercation with Derek Fisher, and he called Barnes Becky with the nice hair.