height_ft finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue nationality article_title draftround birth_date draftyear weight_lbs years death_place team draftteam number college statlabel name high_school birth_place position letter height_in bbr draftpick
6 1970 14 september 2002 1964 3,997 -rrb- 377 -lrb- 0.8 apg -rrb- -lrb- 8.8 ppg -rrb- 2,939 -lrb- 6.5 rpg american jim barnes -lrb- basketball -rrb-
 1 13 april 1941 1964 210 1964 start -- 1967 end 1968 1968 start -- 1969 end start 1970 start -- 1965 start 1965 -- 1966 1966 silver spring , maryland new bulls boston celtics baltimore bullets york knicks baltimore bullets los angeles lakers chicago new york knicks 22 , 12 , 41 , 23 , 14 , 28 cameron -- 1964 -rrb- -lrb- 1960 -- 1962 -rrb- utep -lrb- 1962 points rebounds assists jim barnes stillwater -lrb- stillwater , oklahoma -rrb- tuckerman , arkansas center / power forward b 8 barneji01 1
jim barnes -lrb- basketball -rrb-

velvet james `` jim '' barnes -lrb- april 13 , 1941 -- september 14 , 2002 -rrb- , a.k.a. `` bad news '' barnes was an american basketball player .
a 6 ' 8 '' forward/center , barnes began his college career at cameron college -lrb- at the time , a junior college -rrb- .
he tallied 28.8 points per game in his freshman year and 30.6 points per game in his sophomore year .
he also received njcaa all-american honors as a sophomore .
he then played at texas western college before being selected by the new york knicks with the first pick of the 1964 nba draft .
he was named to the 1965 nba all-rookie team , and played 7 seasons -lrb- 1964 -- 71 -rrb- in the nba with five teams , scoring 3,997 career points .
rapper blu named jim barnes his cousin in his song titled `` bad news barnes '' off of his 2008 mixtape '' -lrb- so -rrb- ul amazing '' .
