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No, for real, Matt Barnes would like to fight Serge Ibaka (Ball Don't Lie)

As you've probably gathered over the course of his 12-year NBA career, Matt Barnes is pretty comfortable saying and doing exactly what he wants. He's proven time and again that he's not especially interested in pulling punches, speaking softly or using euphemisms — like famed truth-teller Colin Quinn, he really doesn't give a care — and the 35-year-old swingman showed no indication of slowing down during a Tuesday visit to ESPN's "SportsNation."

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Host Michelle Beadle asked Barnes — who spent the last three seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers before being traded to the Charlotte Hornets and redirected to the Memphis Grizzlies, where he'll renew acquaintances with respected combatant Zach Randolph — to explain his beef with Serge Ibaka, the Oklahoma City Thunder big man with whom he tussled back in the fall of 2013.