I thought Apricot did a great job summarizing the Golden State Warriors' negotiations with Harrison Barnes thus far in his Tuesday article, which was deservedly selected as Best of SB Nation-NBA this week— a lot happened in a short amount of time, at least in terms of how the negotiations became public, and that's about as clear a rundown as you'll find if you need to catch up a bit.
But of all the reactions to Barnes' signing that I read this week, the one nugget that really stood out was a quote that seemed to go overlooked by many folks from Ethan Sherwood Strauss' ESPN article about the four-year, $64 million contract that Barnes turned down:
Barnes, as Kerr says, is "deceptively strong.