Few players in the NBA, and certainly no one else in the Nuggets’ locker room, are as authentic as Will Barton.
At any moment, Barton can be insightful or brief, sarcastic or genuine, funny or serious. He’s always honest, usually the pulse of the locker room, and not once have I seen him big time anybody.
Yet after Barton shared on social media about the death of his cousin — Louis Grant, 26, was shot and killed the day after Christmas in Baltimore, Barton’s hometown — I still wanted to ask him if he was comfortable discussing their relationship.