When Harrison Barnes inked a four-year, $94 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks this past summer, he was greeted with skepticism from fans and basketball aficionados across the country. It was perhaps the most doubt cast upon a player who carried the titles of first-round pick, NBA champion and Olympic gold medalist on his resume. […]
Harrison Barnes did not come to Dallas to play power forward, operate in isolation at the elbow, and score 20 points per game on more than 17 shots a night. Dirk Nowitzki did not start opening night believing he’d be playing center for the Mavericks during an 11-5 stretch in February as the club scratches […]
Harrison Barnes is clearly a smart guy, but the play he made in Sunday’s win against San Antonio makes him look even more intelligent — because he essentially called it last week. First, here’s the play I’m talking about. [wp_hyena imageurl=’https://www.mavs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Barnes-to-Curry-3.gif’ data_hyena='{“slate”:”300,0.10,15″,”player_fade_speed”:”500″,”control_opacity”:”0,0.9″,”fade_speed”:”250,250″,”style”:2}’] By the fourth quarter, Barnes seemed to understand what the Spurs were doing […]
Harrison Barnes stood at his locker on Tuesday night, towel around his neck, after the Mavs’ 113-105 win against the Wizards. The 24-year-old was fresh off another good game — 26 points, seven rebounds, five assists in 35 minutes — and answered questions about playing the power forward position exclusively these days, and the advantages […]
This season has been one big education for Harrison Barnes. The fifth-year pro has quickly become the Mavericks’ top offensive option in his first season with the club. He leads the team in scoring at 20.4 points per game and is receiving an unprecedented workload, compared to what he’d been used to earlier in his […]
Monday night in San Antonio, the heavily shorthanded Mavericks set a franchise record by starting four undrafted players. Of the 10 available to head coach Rick Carlisle, six were not selected in the NBA Draft, and two more were taken in the second round. You wouldn’t think, then, that the Mavs’ most heavily scrutinized player […]
Dirk Nowitzki has unfortunately missed time this season due to a sore Achilles, but in his absence new Maverick Harrison Barnes has stepped up and dazzled in his first run as the go-to guy on an NBA team. “He’s been phenomenal for us,” Nowitzki told reporters in New York, according to Basketball Insiders. “We isolate […]
Starting point guard J.J. Barea led the Mavericks in rim attacks in Sunday’s 86-75 OT win against Milwaukee. Second on that list was someone you might not expect (although the headline does sort of give it away): Harrison Barnes. The 24-year-old sudden slasher attacked the rim 16 times in the game, according to Mavs analytics, […]
The Mavericks likely envisioned Harrison Barnes becoming a go-to kind of offensive player in the future, but not even the team (or, maybe, even the player himself) could have seen the transition from role-player to leading scorer going so smoothly so early in the season. Barnes scored 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds in […]
Basketball season is finally here, everyone. Breathe it in. Enjoy it. We made it. This Mavs team is so different from last season’s squad for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are plenty of new faces in the locker room, and yes, the team is much younger. But even the returning players are beginning this […]