NBA Champion Matt Barnes claims he hasn't cried in 30 years

NBA Champion Matt Barnes claimed helium hasn't cried successful 30 years successful an affectional podcast episode.

Barnes, 45, enjoyed a 14-year-NBA vocation and won a rubric with the Golden State Warriors successful the 2016-17 season, his last year.

But successful a caller occurrence of his All the Smoke podcast, Barnes spoke astir his turbulent childhood, successful which helium grew up 'biracial, [with a] achromatic dad, Italian mom, drugs, abuse, alcohol, violence.'

His parent besides passed distant erstwhile helium was 27 and successful the opening stages of his NBA career.

'And I haven't cried... I'm starting to consciousness it now. I consciousness similar I'm astir pouring from an bare cup,' helium said.

Barnes estimated that the past clip helium cried was erstwhile helium was astir 10 years old, aft helium 'got his a** whooped.'

The erstwhile NBA tiny forward, who precocious divided with fiancée Anansa Sims, said helium was 'always taking attraction of everybody' passim his playing vocation and struggled to explicit his emotions to his present ex-partner.

'Through my actions, I virtually conscionable mislaid my family… I wasn't determination emotionally, I wasn't empathetic,' helium said.

'Trying to excavation backmost and understand, and I started counseling that, similar you said, small Matt, from backmost past is inactive wounded - and inactive trying to find his way. Although grown Matt feels similar helium has it all, small Matt is determination much than I realize,' helium continued.

Barnes said that crying arsenic a antheral was a 'refreshing' and 'good' happening to bash but inactive asked his podcast guest, Jason Wilson, however helium could get determination himself.   

'How bash you cry? I don't privation to accidental I don't cognize however to outcry due to the fact that I person cried before, but I haven't cried successful astir apt 30 years.'

In January, Barnes was accused by Sims - whom helium had been with since 2018 - successful a societal media station of cheating connected her with 8 antithetic women.

And aft his latest podcast episode, she sounded disconnected connected her ex astir sharing 'half-truths' successful public.

'If you're going to speech publically astir our idiosyncratic business, archer the full story,' she wrote successful a now-deleted Instagram story, per the Shade Room.

'Don't station half-truths astir maine and our past narration to summation sympathy from the masses. I'm successful the trenches doing the hard enactment making definite each of our kids are ok.'

She continued, 'You've made nary effort to emotionally enactment each of our children done this traumatic modulation you caused, but you're consenting to beryllium 'vulnerable' for strangers connected the gram for profit? Please support my sanction retired of your mouth.

'If you privation to bash immoderate good, delight don't speech astir me, spell get accordant therapy and astir important commencement gathering a narration with God,' she finished the statement.

The ex-couple shares 2 children together, portion some person kids from erstwhile marriages arsenic well.