Matt Barnes’ feud with the ex-husband of his fiancée is reportedly headed to the courts.

David Patterson Jr., who was beforehand married to Barnes’ fiancée Anansa Sims, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Barnes in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket on Friday.

Patterson alleges the previous NBA participant dedicated battery, assault and emotional misery throughout an incident ultimately weekend’s San Francisco 49ers vs. Dallas Cowboys recreation, based on TMZ.

Video emerged of Barnes spitting on Patterson throughout a heated change earlier this week.

In his lawsuit, Patterson reportedly claims he was not conscious Barnes can be attending the NFL divisional playoff recreation between the Niners and Cowboys on Sunday, however the two coincidentally bumped into one another on a Levi’s Stadium concourse.

Patterson, who’s reportedly searching for unspecified damages, alleges the 2 began yelling at one another from about 20 ft away, at which level Barnes allegedly walked as much as him and spat in his face. He additionally claims a number of cellular phone cameras captured the incident and that Barnes has harassed and threatened him repeatedly prior to now.

These claimed threats allegedly embrace textual content messages calling Patterson a “bitch,” “clown” and “fats f***” in addition to one message in 2022 that mentioned, “Pull up & get your ass whooped in entrance of your youngsters. I’m executed speaking.”

Matt Barnes received into it w his fiance’s ex outdoors the 49ers recreation Sunday. Matt spits on him.
Matt says guys been harassing him. MB filed for restraining order Tues. Ex “hunted me down & aggressively confronted me”. Matt additionally says the ex as soon as threatened to shoot him w his “Glock” pic.twitter.com/Q7UgEhlP9V

— michael j. babcock (@mikejbabcock) January 25, 2023

Barnes, a number of the favored “All of the Smoke” podcast with fellow ex-NBA participant Stephen Jackson, was granted a brief restraining order in opposition to Patterson after claiming that principally the other sequence of occasions occurred.

In keeping with TMZ, Barnes alleged Patterson has been harassing him over the previous few months, at one level threatening to shoot him with a gun, and “hunted” him down in the course of the Niners recreation. It was solely after Patterson “aggressively confronted” him and allegedly shoved him that Barnes claims he spit at Patterson, whom he claims has been “making an attempt to bait me to break my popularity and harm my profession.”

Below the momentary restraining order, Patterson is reportedly required to haven’t any contact with Barnes and keep 100 yards away from him. He has additionally been ordered to haven’t any firearms.

The momentary restraining order will reportedly run by Feb. 16, at which level a listening to is scheduled to find out if Barnes ought to obtain a everlasting restraining order.

Barnes himself has acquired a brief restraining order prior to now over the state of affairs, as Patterson’s girlfriend  alleged final October that he was mistreating Patterson’s three older kids with Sims. He has additionally had disputes with Sims, with whom he later reconciled, and his ex-wife.