Matt Barnes says that he's kept people from assaulting Skip Bayless in the past. The comments come in response to Bayless's recent comments on the injury of NFL star Damar Hamlin.
Barnes began by praising Bayless as a professional but criticized his handling of the Hamlin situation. Bayless posted an insensitive tweet on Monday night about the resumption of play following Hamlin collapsing on the field.
Barnes began by suggesting that he thinks "Skip's day is coming."
"I know personally that I've had to defuse two situations—one with a coach and one with an NBA player," Barnes revealed. "They wanted to fuck Skip up. Personally, I've had to do it. One was this year, and one was last year."
He continued: "Luckily, cooler heads prevailed, but I just see it's just gone too far, in my opinion. And again, Shannon has had a lot of love or does have a lot of love for dude. But you can see Shannon's fed up. And someone's gonna end up hurting Skip, because his ego, his arrogance, his disrespect, has kind of always been on this level. But now I think it's going to a new level."
As for what specifically Bayless tweeted about Hamlin, he wrote: "No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome … which suddenly seems so irrelevant.”
After Shannon Sharpe returned to Undisputed on Wednesday, the two got into a heated argument about the post.
Hamlin currently remains under intensive care at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The Bills say that he has shown “signs of improvement” since Monday night.
Check out Matt Barnes's post on Instagram below.
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