Nickname: ‘Bad News’ / ‘The Magnificent’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Marvelous’

Teams:
Spirits of St Louis (’74-’76)
Detroit Pistons (’76-’77)
Buffalo #Braves (’77-’78)
Boston Celtics (’78-’79)
San Diego #Clippers (’79-’80)

Career Stats (per game):
16.0 pts // 9.1 rebs // 2.1 asts // 48.1 FG% // 69.1 FT% // 21.4 3pt%

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– hitting a college teammate with a tire iron
– saying ‘I’m not getting in no time machine’ and not getting on a plane in Louisville because the ticket showed the arrival time (7.56 am) in St Louis, which because of the time difference, was 4-minutes prior…. he hired a car and drove
– calling reporters ‘scumbags’ and refusing to talk to them
– missing a chunk of the 1976 season because he was in jail for trying to get on a plane with an unloaded gun
– missing a flight to a game… and chartering a private plane instead: he rolled into the game wearing a mink coat, with a woman on each arm and a bag of Maccas… then scored 43 points and had 19 rebounds after being benched for the 1st quarter
– being a big fan of cocaine… to the point he once admitted he did it on the bench during a Celtics game
– being arrested for trespassing, being under the influence of narcotics & burglary
– also getting arrested in 1990 for stealing porn videotapes from a San Diego ‘adult bookstore’
– wearing big-ass floppy hats & driving around in a silver Rolls Royce
– being a goddamn legend
– being one of the biggest waste of talents in NBA history

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
Assured! C’mon mate! Bad News Barnes was a legend’s legend – there’s about 50 more stories about him that didn’t even make this post. Big fella took no crap, was a bad MF’er (reportedly carrying two guns at all times), was an ABA superstar, and thanks to his rampant drug use out of the NBA by 27. He never got a handle on his drug problems, as he died a couple of years back, which is a huge damn shame. Vale Bad News.

#ONYA Bad News!

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