Matt Barnes In Politics, Hoping To Maintain Workplace By Age 50

Governor Matt Barnes?? Maybe sometime — ‘trigger the ex-NBA star says he desires to run for political workplace by the point he turns 50!!

43-year-old Barnes — who performed 16 seasons within the NBA — shared his political aspirations throughout an look on “Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel” … and he isn’t simply speaking being the president of his native PTO. He is eyeing some big-time positions.

“I gave myself a objective again in my 30s that by the point I flip 50, I needed to run for some kind of workplace,” Barnes stated. “Whether or not that be mayor or governor or no matter it could be.”

“It will be refreshing,” he continued. “It isn’t one thing folks count on, however I do know I could make a distinction. I nonetheless bought seven years earlier than that point is up.”

Barnes — who received a championship with the Warriors in 2017 — says he’d like to be an instance to those who they will make one thing of themselves and create alternatives for the under-represented members of society.

“I attempt to use my platform to talk up for individuals who haven’t got a platform or haven’t got a voice,” Barnes stated.

“I feel I have been misunderstood my whole life. I attempt to give again. I attempt to inspire. I attempt to educate. In our communities, it’s important to see it to consider it. I at all times wish to be a logo of hope.”