Harrison Barnes has been worth every penny the Mavericks gave him — so far

Posted Nov 12, 2016
But there always was a sense that the No. 7 pick in the 2012 NBA draft — a player who once was compared to a young Kobe Bryant in his formative basketball years, and then spent two years at North Carolina — would never quite be able to unlock the talent that seemed to lie within his body that appeared perfectly crafted to be an elite NBA wing player. (Washington Post)

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