Brent Barry

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Brent Barry
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Barry with the Spurs in 2005
San Antonio Spurs
PositionVice president of basketball operations
League NBA
Personal information
Born (1971-12-31) December 31, 1971 (age 52)
Hempstead, New York, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school De La Salle (Concord, California)
College Oregon State (1991–1995)
NBA draft 1995: 1st round, 15th overall pick
Selected by the Denver Nuggets
Playing career1995–2009
Position Shooting guard
Number31, 17
Career history
1995–1998 Los Angeles Clippers
1998 Miami Heat
1999 Chicago Bulls
1999–2004 Seattle SuperSonics
2004–2008 San Antonio Spurs
2008–2009 Houston Rockets
Career highlights and awards
Career statistics
Points 8,488 (9.3 ppg)
Rebounds 2,780 (3.0 rpg)
Assists 2,892 (3.2 apg)
Stats   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Brent Robert Barry (born December 31, 1971), also known by the nickname "Bones", [1] is an American basketball executive, broadcaster and former player. [2] He is the current vice president of basketball operations for the San Antonio Spurs. [3] The shooting guard played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning two league championships with the Spurs in 2005 and 2007, and also won the Slam Dunk Contest in 1996. He is the son of Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Barry.

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After retiring, Barry worked as a sports commentator for the NBA on TNT and was a studio host for the NBA TV show NBA Gametime. [4] In 2018, he returned to the Spurs as an executive. He is also a commentator of the NBA 2K series and has been a commentator since the release of NBA 2K21 .

Early life

Barry was born on December 31, 1971, in Hempstead, New York. He is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry. He attended De La Salle High School in Concord, California.

College career

Barry played four years on the Beavers basketball team of Oregon State University after redshirting his freshman season. Barry graduated from Oregon State with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1995. [5]

Professional career

Brent Barry was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the first round (15th pick) of the 1995 NBA draft, but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers on draft night in a 4-player trade with Rodney Rogers for the No. 2 overall pick in the draft (Antonio McDyess) and Randy Woods. [6] Barry was generally considered a good passer and had three seasons where he averaged more than 5 assists per game. Barry was also a strong three-point shooter; he currently ranks 13th all-time in career three-point field goals made and shot 40% from behind the arc for his career. These two strengths, combined with Barry's 6'7" frame, allowed him to play a variety of positions, including point guard, shooting guard, and small forward; because he was taller than most traditional point guards, he was often considered a point forward when he was running the offense. He was on the San Antonio Spurs championship teams in 2005 and 2007. He won the Slam Dunk Contest in the NBA All-Star Weekend in 1996 with a Julius Erving-inspired slam dunk in which he took off from the free throw line to sail in and dunk one-handed. [7] He was the first white player to win the competition. [8]

Los Angeles Clippers (1995–1998)

After being drafted by the Denver Nuggets, Barry was traded immediately to the Los Angeles Clippers. In his rookie season, Brent made 123 3-pointers, which broke the current rookie record. There Brent would average 10.4 ppg and 38% 3-pt field goal in 179 games. In his second season, he and the Clippers attempted a playoff run where Brent would average 11.7 ppg, his highest in the postseason. The Clippers only played in 3 games (one series; 1996–1997) during the postseason while Barry was there. [9]

Miami Heat (1998)

Barry was traded to the Miami Heat the day before the February 20 trade deadline from Los Angeles for Isaac Austin. In Miami, Barry would only play 17 games, not starting any of them, averaging only 4.1 ppg. [10]

Chicago Bulls (1999)

Barry signed with the Bulls on January 25, 1999, and signed a 6-year $27 million contract. After sustaining an injury, he played only 37 of the 50 games played that season, starting 30 of those games, averaging 11.1 ppg. Failing to fill the void of a Jordan-less Bulls, the team traded Brent for Hersey Hawkins and James Cotton from Seattle on August 12, 1999. [11]

Seattle SuperSonics (1999–2004)

Brent spent five seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics. Brent would begin his Seattle career as a back-up for fellow Oregon State alumnus Gary Payton. He would eventually move to play the point position as a starter, and filled in when needed as a small forward. There he would average 11.2 points, make 669 three-point shots, and start the majority of his NBA career (296 out of 328 games), and total 4,107 points. In Seattle he would play 10 postseason games, starting eight of those, the most in his career thus far. [12]

San Antonio Spurs (2004–2008)

In the summer of 2004, Barry was signed as a free agent by the San Antonio Spurs, where he spent most of the season as a backup. After losing their first playoff game to the Denver Nuggets in the 2005 NBA playoffs, San Antonio inserted Barry into the starting lineup. The Spurs' new lineup helped them beat the Nuggets in the series four games to one. Later in those same playoffs, Barry earned his first championship ring when the Spurs defeated the Detroit Pistons in the 2005 NBA Finals. Brent and his father, Rick Barry, are the second father-son duo to each win an NBA Championship as a player; the first was Matt Guokas, Sr. and his son Matt Guokas, Jr. The only other father-son duos are Bill Walton and his son Luke Walton, Mychal Thompson and his son Klay Thompson and Gary Payton and his son Gary Payton II.

In June 2007, he won his second NBA championship ring when the Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers 4–0.

In January 2008, Barry tore his right calf muscle. On February 20, 2008, (not too long after his injury) Barry, along with Francisco Elson and a 2009 first-round draft pick, were traded by the San Antonio Spurs back to the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for forward/center Kurt Thomas. Barry was waived the following day by the Sonics. After a mandatory 30-day waiting period, he re-signed with San Antonio on March 24, 2008, for one year with the possibility for the 2009–2010 season at Veteran Minimum. [13]

Coming off of injury Barry did not see very much playing time in the first two rounds of the 2008 NBA playoffs. Barry would shine against the Lakers in the Western Conference finals, however, getting 23 points in Game 4, with a controversial no-call foul with 2 seconds on the clock. The Spurs would lose the series in 5 games, however.

San Antonio provided Barry with the most playoff experience (71 games) of his career. He totaled 356 3-point shots made and 1,888 points.

Houston Rockets (2008–2009)

Barry opted out of his contract and became a free agent on July 1, 2008. On July 10, Barry signed a 2-year contract with the Houston Rockets, becoming the third member of the family to join the franchise. [14] His father, Rick, ended his career playing two seasons with the Rockets (1978–1980) and his older brother, Jon, also finished his career with the Rockets, playing from 2004 to 06. [15] Financial terms were not released. [15]

Brent's other brother Richard Francis "Scooter" Barry IV (born August 13, 1966) is also a retired American professional basketball player.

On October 23, 2009, Brent Barry's career ended when he was cut by the Rockets at the end of training camp, leading Barry to later remark that "all the Barrys were buried in Houston".

Post-playing career

In 2013, Barry began making regular appearances on NBA TV's The Starters in his own segment: "The Bone Zone". He was a fill-in analyst for the NBA on TNT coverage, and was a play-by-play announcer for their Players Only broadcast starting in 2016. [16] He was partnered with Ian Eagle for TNT's coverage of the 2018 NBA playoffs.

In 2018, Barry joined the San Antonio Spurs' front office as their vice president of basketball operations. [3]

Personal life

Barry, born in Hempstead, New York, is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry, and was arguably the best player of the five basketball-playing Barry sons, the others being Scooter, Jon, Drew, and Canyon. His stepmother, Lynn Barry, also was an accomplished basketball player in college. Brent, the second youngest, played his high school basketball at athletic powerhouse De La Salle High School in Concord, California, and graduated in 1990.

Brent and Erin Barry were married in 1998, after being together from the time they were both in high school. [17] They have two sons. In 2010, Brent Barry had filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences". [18]

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage 3P%  3-point field goal percentage FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high
 † Won an NBA championship  * Led the league

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1995–96 L.A. Clippers 794424.0.474.416.8102.12.91.2.310.1
1996–97 L.A. Clippers 59018.5.409.324.8171.92.6.9.37.5
1997–98 L.A. Clippers 413632.7.428.400.8443.53.21.2.613.7
1997–98 Miami 17015.2.371.3531.0001.61.2.8.24.1
1998–99 Chicago 373031.9.396.302.7723.93.11.1.311.1
1999–00 Seattle 807434.1.463.411.8094.73.61.3.411.8
2000–01 Seattle 672026.5.494.476*.8163.13.41.2.28.8
2001–02 Seattle 818137.5.508.424.8465.45.31.8.514.4
2002–03 Seattle 756833.1.458.403.7954.05.11.5.210.3
2003–04 Seattle 595330.6.504.452.8273.55.81.4.310.8
2004–05† San Antonio 81821.5.423.357.8372.32.2.5.27.4
2005–06 San Antonio 74517.0.452.396.6612.11.7.5.45.8
2006–07† San Antonio 752821.7.475.446.8802.11.8.7.28.5
2007–08 San Antonio 31117.9.481.429.9501.81.7.5.17.1
2008–09 Houston 56115.3.407.374.9501.71.4.4.13.7
Career91244925.9.460.405.8233.03.21.0.39.3

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
1997 L.A. Clippers 3028.0.407.455.8892.33.31.3.011.7
2000 Seattle 5331.0.364.400.7142.63.0.6.68.4
2002 Seattle 5529.8.412.4381.0004.62.8.6.87.8
2005† San Antonio 23824.1.457.424.8102.41.9.7.26.1
2006 San Antonio 13223.2.557.500.7622.51.7.7.27.8
2007† San Antonio 19011.8.350.3061.0001.31.1.2.13.1
2008 San Antonio 16014.2.491.463.8001.11.1.4.15.2
2009 Houston 408.8.500.375—1.0.8.5.03.3
Career881819.7.446.416.8022.01.7.5.25.8

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References

  1. ↑ Baker, Chris (July 2, 1995). "Brent Barry Had to Deal With Playing in His Famous Father's Shadow, Their Strained Relationship, Losing at Oregon State, and Now. . . : Welcome to L.A." Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 5, 2018. The younger Barry, nicknamed "Bones" by his Oregon State teammates because he carries only 185 pounds on his 6-foot-6, 185-pound frame[...]
  2. ↑ Houston Rockets waive G Brent Barry
  3. 1 2 "Brent Barry rejoins Spurs in front-office job". ESPN.com. September 17, 2018. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Brent Barry joins NBA TV's studio analyst crew" Archived November 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine NBA.com, November 2, 2009
  5. ↑ "Brent Barry bio". NBA. Archived from the original on December 3, 2010. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ Chris Baker (October 3, 1995). "Rookie Guard Brent Barry Signs Three-Year Deal With Clippers". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ Solomon: Rockets’ Budinger proves he belongs in dunking event
  8. ↑ "Brent Barry: A White Man That Can Jump" "Bleacher Report", June 11, 2010
  9. ↑ Brent Barry Signs with Clippers
  10. ↑ Brent Barry Traded to Heat
  11. ↑ "PRO BASKETBALL: NOTEBOOK; Chicago Acquires Brent Barry (Published 1999)". The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 7, 2022.
  12. ↑ Brent Barry Signs with Sonics
  13. ↑ Spurs re-sign veteran guard Barry just over a month after trading him to Seattle
  14. ↑ Barry signs with Houston, is third family member to play for Rockets
  15. 1 2 Brent Barry Signs with Rockets
  16. ↑ release, Official. "TNT to debut NBA "Players Only" franchise starting Feb. 27". NBA.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Erin Barry stands up for kids, a comfy home court, true love (and basketball)" San Antonio Woman, July–August 2006
  18. ↑ "Two married Spurs couples are calling it quits" Archived December 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine KENS5.com San Antonio, November 17, 2010
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