By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-09-01 12:58:00
2026年6月9日星期二，在纽约麦迪逊广场花园，圣安东尼奥马刺前锋哈里森·巴恩斯在球队以115-111战胜纽约尼克斯、赢得NBA总决赛第三场后的新闻发布会上回答记者提问。
在长达14年的NBA球员生涯中，哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 温文尔雅、博学多识的风度为他赢得了队友们送上的“参议员”绰号。
而这个休赛期，巴恩斯或许需要一个新绰号：“银行家”。
这个称号可是名副其实。
在马刺结束NBA总决赛征程后的几个月里，这位34岁的老将前锋出手买下了一整家银行。
巴恩斯斥资2500万美元收购了位于爱荷华州帕顿的社区州立银行，这家社区银行距离他的家乡爱荷华州埃姆斯市约40分钟车程。
这笔交易使巴恩斯直接成为这家已运营七十年的金融机构的所有者。
“这不是一个面子工程，”巴恩斯在接受雅虎体育采访时表示。“我们想成为爱荷华州下一家伟大的银行。”
对巴恩斯来说，这与大多数NBA球员尝试的“银行出手”（篮球术语，指打板投篮）是不同意义上的。
他对金融的兴趣至少可以追溯到2012年，当时他和妻子布列塔尼创立了Barnes & Co.，一个负责管理其商业事务和慈善事业的家庭办公室。
通过Barnes & Co.，这位前NBA总冠军成员多年来投资了多家银行，并因此进入了埃姆斯第一国民银行和达拉斯Triumph Bancorp的董事会。
去年春天，正值NBA赛季激战正酣之际，巴恩斯报名参加了爱荷华银行学院，修读由爱荷华银行家协会支持的在线课程。
作为前国家篮球运动员协会（NBPA）董事会成员，巴恩斯——今年夏天早些时候刚与马刺签下一份一年800万美元的合同，将迎来在马刺的第三个赛季——告诉美国银行家协会，他在NBPA的经历帮助他为进入银行业做好了准备。
“我对将要面对的情况有一定的预期，银行董事会和NBPA的球员董事会在很大程度上并无不同，”巴恩斯说道。
巴恩斯此前在银行业的经验让他得以与金融界的众多重量级人物打交道，其中包括前爱荷华州银行监管负责人杰夫·普拉格。
2024年，巴恩斯聘请普拉格担任Barnes & Co.的董事总经理，负责其投资策略。
在接受美国银行家协会采访时，普拉格表示，推动巴恩斯NBA生涯的自律、投入和长远眼光，同样让他在银行家的角色中受益匪浅。
“没有这三点的充分具备，你不可能在NBA打超过13年球，”普拉格说。“而且每一位银行家都知道，在社区银行业务中，你必须对社区、员工和客户有承诺，同时也要有打持久战的自律。”
事实上，巴恩斯表示，他在NBA多年积累的心态已被证明在金融领域同样适用。
“耐心和风险管理是成功银行业的巨大支柱，”巴恩斯在接受美国银行家协会采访时表示。“这些概念在篮球中也存在，只是名称不同——例如，投篮选择。”
在实现购买银行的梦想时，巴恩斯发现与社区的深厚联系是关键。
“优秀的社区银行家，首先也是最根本的，是了解他们社区的构成和需求，”巴恩斯说。“没有这方面知识的慈善家就像在黑暗中投篮，我自己有时也犯过这样的错误。”
巴恩斯对银行业的兴趣在新冠疫情期间愈发浓厚，因为他目睹了当地金融机构为家乡爱荷华州的小企业伸出援手。
“我在新冠期间看到社区银行扮演了经济‘第一响应者’的角色，”巴恩斯告诉美国银行家协会。
如今，随着拥有自己的银行被纳入其投资组合，巴恩斯已经让自己处于一个能够在家乡社区填补类似需求的位置。
不是作为面子工程，而是作为对未来的投资。
“我的动力来自于与爱荷华州的年轻银行家们建立一个同行群体，与他们一起在这个行业中成长，”巴恩斯告诉美国银行家协会。
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查看原文：San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes bought an Iowa bank
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes bought an Iowa bank
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes answers questions during a news conference at Madison Square Garden in New York, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, following the Spurs’ 115-111 win in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks.
Over a 14-year NBA playing career, Harrison Barnes’ polished and erudite demeanor has earned him the moniker “The Senator” from teammates.
This offseason, Barnes has perhaps required a new nickname: “The Banker.”
That appellation is a literal one.
In the months since the Spurs ended their run to the NBA Finals, their 34-year-old veteran forward went out and bought himself a whole entire bank.
Barnes committed $25 million to purchase Community State Bank in Paton, Iowa, a community bank located 40 minutes outside his hometown of Ames, Iowa.
The transaction affords Barnes direct ownership in the financial institution, which has been in business for the past seven decades.
“This is not a vanity project,” Barnes said, according to Yahoo! Sports. “We want to be Iowa’s next great bank.”
For Barnes, it is a different kind of bank shot than most NBA players attempt.
His interest in finance dates to at least 2012, when he and his wife Brittany established Barnes & Co., a family office to oversee his business affairs and philanthropic endeavors.
Through Barnes & Co., the one-time NBA champion has invested in numerous banks over the years, landing him on boards of the First National Bank in Ames and Triumph Bancorp in Dallas.
Last spring, with the NBA season in full swing, Barnes enrolled in the Iowa School of Banking, taking online classes backed by the Iowa Bankers Association.
A former member of the board of the National Basketball Players Association, Barnes – who earlier this summer signed a one-year, $8-million contract to return for a third season with the Spurs – told the American Bankers Association his experience with the NBPA helped prepare him for the banking industry.
“I had some sense of what to expect, and the bank boards were not much different than the NBPA’s player board,” Barnes said.
Barnes’ previous experience in banking allowed him to rub elbows with scores of movers and shakers in the financial sector, including former Iowa banking superintendent Jeff Plagge.
In 2024, Barnes tabbed Plagge to head Barnes and Co.’s investment strategy as managing director.
In an interview with the American Banking Association, Plagge said the discipline, commitment and ability to take a long-term view that have fueled Barnes’ NBA career serve him well as a banker.
“You don’t play in the NBA for over 13 years without a lot of all three,” Plagge said. “And as every banker knows, in community banking you have to have a commitment to your communities, employees and customers, as well as the discipline to play the long game.”
Indeed, the mindset Barnes has gleaned over the years in the NBA have proven useful in the world of finance, he said.
“Patience and risk management are huge pillars of successful banking,” Barnes said in the interview with the ABA. “These same concepts appear in basketball, with different names – for example, shot selection.”
When it came to his dream of buying a bank, Barnes found deep roots in the community to be key.
“Good community bankers, first and foremost, understand their community’s makeup and needs,” Barnes said. “Philanthropists without this knowledge are shooting in the dark, as I have done at times.”
Barnes’ interest in banking intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, as he witnessed local financial institutions come to the rescue of small businesses in his native Iowa.
“I saw community banks act as economic first responders during COVID,” Barnes told the ABA.
With ownership of his own bank in his portfolio, Barnes has put himself in a position to fill a similar need in his home community.
Not as a vanity project, but as an investment in the future.
“I’m motivated by developing a peer group with young Iowa bankers, with whom I can grow in this industry,” Barnes told the ABA.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News
