 On May 30, 2017, Barea was appointed the head coach of Indios de Mayagüez of the BSN.While listed as by the NBA, Barea's mother believes his actual height is around .In a 2016 "Wall Street Journal" story, Barea said that when announced as being 6 feet in pregame player introductions, he sometimes had to stop himself from giggling "because me and about 20,000 other people in the arena knew that was a lie."