Rick Barry was an NBA star in the 1970s who was named to the All-Star and All-Team teams several times and was a very good scorer. In 1975, he led the Warriors to a championship and was elected MVP. Of course, perhaps the most impressive thing about him is his 90% free throw shooting percentage with the posture of the urinal pot.
Barry is the trailblazer who organizes the striker and under normal circumstances he can help his teammates get more opportunities and help them score points easily. At the same time, Barry has a strong scoring ability, averaging 35.6 points in the second season of the NBA. In the 1967 playoffs, he averaged 34.7 points per game, and when playing at Aba, Barry also showed a three-pointer level that surpassed the times, shooting 41.2% of the 31 three-pointers on 97-of-30 shooting in 31 playoff games.
However, Barry is not a good player, because he has a very short temper, low emotional intelligence, and serious racial discrimination. The arrogant Barry was rejected by his teammates. In 1983, Sports Illustrated interviewed five of his former teammates, and none of them had a favorable opinion of him.
Chief Parrish said Barry was very bad and he always looked down on you. Another player commented that everyone thought he was the most arrogant guy in history, half of whom disliked him and the other half hated him. Mike Dunllivi's complaints are even more shocking, he lacks diplomacy, and if Rick is sent to the United Nations, he will start a third world war.
In Game 7 of the 1976 Western Conference Finals, Barry, who averaged 27.6 points per game throughout the series, gave up the game. Because when he clashed with his opponent in the first half, he didn't have a teammate to protect himself, and some people even accidentally punched Barry a few times during the fight. Throughout the second half, Barry didn't shoot much and the team lost the game.
Twenty-seven years later, he was a guest on a talk show, and well-known commentator Bill Simmons asked him what happened to the 1976 seven-break. His response was, I had a block with Clifford Ray, but he didn't catch that damn pass. Apparently, Barry selectively forgot his mistakes, and for a mistake by his teammates, he can still remember 27 years.