Sacramento Kings forward Matt Barnes – wanted for questioning by police for allegedly choking his girlfriend inside a Chelsea nightclub – posted on Instagram Monday “there’s always two sides to a story.”
“The side the media consistently tries to paint of me…And what actually happened! Don’t believe everything you read,” Barnes posted at around 2 p.m. to his more than 430,000 followers.
The NBA star – who was with teammate DeMarcus Cousins – allegedly choked a 26-year-old woman sitting at a nearby table inside the Avenue nightclub at around 3:20 a.m. after she reached over to grab her purse, sources said.
Barnes also “physically assaulted” another man and woman who tried to intervene, witnesses told investigators, sources said.
A larger brawl broke out with glass bottles being thrown following the alleged attack.
A rep for Barnes told TMZ that the woman had slapped him in the face after Barnes accidentally “butt bumped” her in VIP section of the club.
The rep claimed that several men with the woman then violently intervened and one of the men choked Barnes, according to TMZ.
Cousins even jumped in in defense of Barnes, the celebrity gossip site reported.