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Harrison Barnes

Harrison Barnes is now a veteran depth forward whose real-life steadiness matters more than his projected fantasy line.

2026-27 projection

GP MPG FG% FT% 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK TO
50 10.0 .460 .830 0.8 5.2 1.9 0.8 0.3 0.1 0.4

Role case

Barnes started 52 of his 77 games in 2025-26 and fell to 9.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 25.8 minutes, shooting 45.6% from the field and 38.8% from three. He still made 1.8 threes per game with low turnovers, but supplied only 0.8 combined steals and blocks. ESPN stats, accessed 2026-07-18

The Spurs brought him back on a reported one-year, $8M deal after adding Tobias Harris and re-signing Julian Champagnie, which is continuity money rather than a workload guarantee. Hoops Rumors, 2026-07-08 The San Antonio Spurs healthy map gives Barnes five power-forward minutes behind Champagnie and Harris, and post-free-agency depth-chart analysis calls him strictly a depth piece — a genuine demotion from 52 starts, and the reason his projection is a shape rather than a level.

Correction 2026-07-18: the assists figure here previously read 0.8; the correct 2025-26 number is 1.9. His 52 starts, which this file did not mention anywhere, are now stated. The projection also changes shape: 70 games at 7.0 minutes was internally inconsistent, since players at that workload appear in 40-50 games as DNP-CD candidates rather than 70. He is now modelled at 50 games and 10.0 minutes, which averages the two realistic states — roughly 18 minutes if a forward absence opens the rotation, roughly nothing if it does not.

Ceiling and floor

Career record

Pre-NBA: North Carolina, two seasons — 15.7 PTS/5.8 REB on .423/.344/.750 as a freshman (ACC Rookie of the Year, 2011); 17.1 PTS/5.2 REB on .440/.358/.723 as a sophomore (first-team All-ACC, NABC second-team All-American, 2012). Draft: 2012, Round 1, Pick 7, Golden State Warriors.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2012-13 20 GSW 81 25.4 9.2 4.1 1.2 0.6 0.2 0.6 .439 .758 1.2
2013-14 21 GSW 78 28.3 9.5 4.0 1.5 0.8 0.3 0.8 .399 .718 1.1
2014-15 22 GSW 82 28.3 10.1 5.5 1.4 0.7 0.2 1.1 .482 .720 0.9
2015-16 23 GSW 66 30.9 11.7 4.9 1.8 0.6 0.2 1.2 .466 .761 0.9
2016-17 24 DAL 79 35.5 19.2 5.0 1.5 0.8 0.2 1.0 .468 .861 1.3
2017-18 25 DAL 77 34.2 18.9 6.1 2.0 0.6 0.2 1.5 .445 .827 1.5
2018-19 26 DAL/SAC 77 32.9 16.4 4.7 1.5 0.6 0.2 2.3 .420 .824 1.3
2019-20 27 SAC 72 34.5 14.5 4.9 2.2 0.6 0.2 1.4 .460 .802 1.2
2020-21 28 SAC 58 36.2 16.1 6.6 3.5 0.7 0.2 1.7 .497 .830 1.6
2021-22 29 SAC 77 33.6 16.4 5.6 2.4 0.7 0.2 1.8 .469 .826 1.5
2022-23 30 SAC 82 32.5 15.0 4.5 1.6 0.7 0.1 1.6 .473 .847 1.0
2023-24 31 SAC 82 29.0 12.2 3.0 1.2 0.7 0.1 1.8 .474 .801 0.7
2024-25 32 SAS 82 27.2 12.3 3.8 1.7 0.5 0.2 1.9 .508 .809 0.6
2025-26 33 SAS 77 25.8 9.9 2.8 1.9 0.6 0.2 1.8 .456 .829 0.8
Career — — 1,070 30.9 13.6 4.6 1.8 0.7 0.2 1.5 .460 .811 1.1

Durability: Elite — 1,070 games in fourteen seasons, four full 82-game years including a start-all-82 season in 2024-25. The only real absences: 16 straight games to a sprained left ankle in 2015-16 and 58-of-72 in the COVID-compressed 2020-21. 2012 No. 7 pick, 2015 champion with Golden State, 2016 Olympic gold medalist. Trajectory: The record shows a two-decade-defining pattern of graceful decline without collapse: a 19-point second option in Dallas at 24, a 15-16-point wing in Sacramento through 30, and now a sub-10-point spacing forward whose only surviving fantasy skills are 1.8 threes, solid percentages, and near-zero turnovers. In 2026-27 he is San Antonio's veteran fourth forward behind Champagnie and Harris on continuity money, a genuine demotion from 52 starts. He becomes fantasy-relevant only if multiple forward absences restore 20-plus minutes, and then strictly as a threes-and-efficiency streamer — the stocks have been absent for a decade. Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia

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