Booker was taught by his father that having basketball IQ was just as important as natural athleticism. At age 12 while visiting him in Milan, he played one-on-one with Danilo Gallinari, then teammate of his father's at Olimpia Milano. He visited his father regularly during the summer.
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Booker was born and raised in Grand Rapids, living with his mother, who is reportedly of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent while his African-American father pursued a professional basketball career internationally. His parents met while his father was playing basketball for the Continental Basketball Association's Grand Rapids Hoops in Gutiérrez's hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Olympic team in Tokyo.īooker is the son of Veronica Gutiérrez, a cosmetologist, and Melvin Booker, who was named the 1994 Big Eight Player of the Year while a point guard at Missouri. Booker also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. The following season, he was named to the All-NBA First Team and helped lead the Suns to a franchise record of 64 wins.
The son of former basketball player Melvin Booker, Devin is a three-time All-Star and helped the Suns reach the NBA Finals in 2021. In 2019, at 22 years old, Booker became the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games. In 2017, at 20 years old, he became the youngest player to score over 60 points in a game, finishing with 70 against the Boston Celtics. After playing college basketball for one season with the Kentucky Wildcats, Booker was selected by the Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick. It’s time to win basketball games.Devin Armani Booker (born October 30, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). We’ve also been going with different lineups through this series, too, so it’s a lot of new for us, but that excuse is out the window. “I don’t try to put any restrictions on anything that I do or ceilings on anything that we do as a team. “I wouldn’t say there’s a ceiling,” Booker said. But the belief in the superstar pair’s potential keeps building. Injuries limited Durant to only eight regular-season games after the trade, so Phoenix is still figuring out a lot of things on the fly, with Williams’ rotation varying significantly from game to game. Phoenix’s front office anticipated this sort of explosive offense when the Suns made the blockbuster midseason trade to pair Durant with Booker. He consistently capitalized on the attention the Denver defense paid the Suns’ stars, hitting open shots when the ball swung to the backside. The Suns also got a big lift off the bench from guard Landry Shamet, who scored 19 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including five 3s. He frequently hits momentum-shifting shots, such as the pair of 3-pointers he made in the final minute of the third quarter to push the Suns’ lead to six points despite the brilliance of Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, who scored 18 of his career-playoff-high 53 points in the frame,” said Suns coach Monty Williams. “It’s not just the sheer numbers that Booker is producing, as remarkable as they are. His past two have occurred while adding significant facilitating responsibilities with Chris Paul sidelined by a strained left groin. The more reps we get, the better we going to get.”īooker already has six 35-plus-point performances in these playoffs, the most ever by a Phoenix player during a postseason.
Book is always comfortable out there in any spot on the floor, and I feel like I’m the same way.
“But at the core of it, it’s just all about playing ball and getting to your spots and just playing aggressive. “To be honest, we’re still learning each other, learning which plays work for both of us, which plays work for our team as well,” Durant said.
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