Garfield defeats Arleta for its first boys’ basketball City title
Eventually, Jamaal Barnes realized he simply couldn’t lose his son.The Garfield High coach didn’t quite see it until this year. His son Jayden was also his point guard, and after two mostly fruitless years, his son had become his point guard. There was no dad in postgame car rides, only Coach, and his son would shut down more often, the reason not dawning on Barnes until his wife told him he had to be both.“It took a toll on our relationship,” Barnes said of he and Jayden, “because I thought I had to be a coach all the…