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Last week, TMZ reported that Matt Barnes – the NBA’s resident misanthrope – had allegedly assaulted a woman in a New York City nightclub after the Kings’ loss against the Knicks on Sunday. According to the report, Barnes choked a woman at Avenue nightclub during an altercation, then punched two other men who tried to intervene.
A few days later, the woman involved, Jasmine Besio, and another man named Myrone Powell filed a federal lawsuit against Barnes and teammate DeMarcus Cousins, who was with Barnes at the time of the incident. Now, Graham Rayman of the New York Daily News is reporting that the NYPD are working to arrest Barnes:
“They’ve got enough to charge Barnes with an assault on a woman,” a police source said. “It will probably be a misdemeanor assault on one of the females who was pushed or choked or sustained some sort of injury. She’s obviously cooperating.”
Barnes has quite the history of violent outbursts. He infamously attacked Derek Fisher at his ex-wife’s home in California two summers ago and was suspended just last season for trying to chase John Henson into the Bucks’ locker room following an on-court incident between the two.
Given Barnes’ reputation, it seems likely the league will take some sort of action, depending on the outcome of the case. This summer, the NBA suspended Darren Collison eight games after he plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge involving his wife.
