Sacramento Kings Make Decision On Harrison Barnes, With Three Years Of Extension

By | Niranjan Bhargav 30 Jun, 2023

Harrison Barnes will stay in Sacramento town for a while now.

Finally, Sacramento Kings made a long pending decision on Harrison Barnes. This means the former first-round pick, Barnes will no longer be a free agent due to the three years contract extension.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN’s reporter Barnes re-sign the contract with the Kings. The deal between Harrison Barnes and the Kings closed with $54 million over three seasons.

ESPN story on Harrison Barnes landing a new three-year, $54M extension with the Kings: https://t.co/GSKB9FquT1
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2023

31-year-old Barnes was first drafted with Golden Warriors in 2012 in his entire 11 years of NBA career he stayed for four seasons in the Warriors and played three seasons for Dallas. After that, he joined the Kings and played five seasons for them.

Along with Mikal Bridges of the Brooklyn Nets and Nikola Vucevic, Harrison Barnes is the only veteran forward who played all 82 regular season games during the 2022-23 season.

Barnes averaged 15.0 points and 4.5 rebounds per game while posting a 47-37-85 shooting line. He’s now averaged double-digits in each of the last 10 seasons.

Barnes also helped to break the Kings’ longest playoff drought in basketball and reached the postseason for the first time in 17 years.

Harrison Barnes’s contract extension means we will not see Harrison Barnes as a free agent like Draymond Green his former teammate who had been drafted in NBA same class playing for the same side.