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Why Are The Kings Still Paying Matt Barnes?

Now-retired NBA veteran Matt Barnes played for nine teams in his 14-year career, including two stints with the Sacramento Kings. He won his first and only championship in his final season as a member of the 2017 Golden State Warriors, though he played in only 20 games for them and averaged just 5 minutes per game in the playoffs.

The reason he only played 20 regular-season games for the Warriors that year was that he started the season as a member of the Kings.

Sacramento signed Barnes to a two-year, $12 million deal in the summer of 2016, and ended up waiving him in February of 2017 to make room for the players acquired in the DeMarcus Cousins trade.